Nikki Fried is scaring the daylights out of Republicans. And she hasn’t even announced yet. In just the last few weeks, the only Democrat to win Florida since 2012 and the “leading contender for the Democratic nomination,” has reenergized progressives and independents by investing in a ground game, “building momentum”…

On March 31, 2020 — with 6,741 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and at least 85 dead in Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis said he was waiting on the White House before issuing a statewide Stay-At-Home Executive Order. Not the epidemiologists advising the White House and Florida to shut down, mind…

“I’m claiming victory already.” On the last day. At the last stop before the election. In sleepy, rural, and conservative Jefferson County, Florida — Andrew Gillum claimed victory. The packed ballroom of the Monticello Opera House was built in 1890, when the state was governed by a confederate veteran, elected…

Starting in April 2010, Rick Scott spent $3.48 million on TV in a four-week vacuum to start his GOP primary campaign for Governor. Despite significant challenges in his bio (fraud — lots of fraud) and lacking any institutional support, those ads took him from 0 to 24% of the primary. …

In 1956, John B. Orr, Jr. was a 38-year-old freshman member of the Florida House from Dade County. As former Florida Supreme Court Judge Fred Karl remembered, on July 26, 1956, “Jack Orr stood alone.” That day, the Florida Legislature was forced into a special session by a lawsuit to…

The Confederate Monument on the grounds of the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee misspells and misplaces Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — and that may be its least egregious error. It’s full of fake Confederate history — the most common kind in Florida. This monument was carved by northerner Thomas Delahunty around 1881 and…

You should thank Charlie Crist for losing in 2014. Here’s why. On March 9, 2014, idling outside of CNN studios getting ready for Candy Crowley’s Sunday Show, Charlie got a little more direct with me than usual. “I don’t want to lie. I’ve been the Governor before. I’m going to say what I think and I think it’s great. Do you want me to lie?” Let me explain his bluntness. In 2014, Governor Crist was trying to make…

I’m pretty sure I was like 15 before my dad corrected me. I had been saying the word deodorant wrong my whole life. Never mind how I said it, but man, deodorant made so much more sense. He thought it was cute. I was oblivious. This is just like most…