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The 2022 Florida gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Florida, alongside other state and local elections.Incumbent Republican governor Ron DeSantis won re-election in a landslide, [1] and defeated the Democratic Party nominee, Charlie Crist, who served as governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 as a Republican and later as an independent.
In the 2022 gubernatorial election, he defeated former governor Charlie Crist by 19.4 percentage points, the state's largest margin of victory for a governor's election in 40 years. On May 24, 2023, DeSantis announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president of the United States , and he continued to serve as governor during ...
Numerous colorful kites including dozens of giant show kites fly the skies like giant squids and even a whale on Presidents’ Day during the 2022 Kite Festival at Haulover Park in Miami Beach ...
August 18 a Florida judge blocks the Stop WOKE Act, saying that it violates the First Amendment and is too vague. [3] September 14 – Martha's Vineyard migrant airlift Florida governor Ron DeSantis sends approximately 50 primarily Venezuelan asylum seekers by air from San Antonio, Texas, to the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
President-elect Donald Trump’s moves to staff his new administration with Floridians has scrambled the 2026 governor's race, after DeSantis. Trump’s Florida-heavy cabinet upends 2026 governor race
She said Florida needs to unify, and current politicians are dividing people instead. “This is a race for a person who is concerned about the situation of our citizens and solving the problems ...
A member of the Republican Party, he narrowly defeated Democratic challenger Andrew Gillum in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election. As governor, DeSantis resisted taking many of the measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 that various other state governments implemented, such as face-mask mandates, stay-at-home orders, and vaccination ...
Spanish Florida was acquired from Spain in the Adams–Onís Treaty, which took effect July 10, 1821. [1] Parts of West Florida had already been assigned to Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi; the remainder and East Florida were governed by a military commissioner with the powers of governor until the territory was organized and incorporated.