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The candidate filing deadline was June 22, 2018, and primary elections were held on August 28. Florida uses a closed primary process, in which the selection of each party's candidates for a general election is limited to registered members of that party; [3] Gillum won the Democratic primary and DeSantis the Republican primary. [4]
That early-model DeSantis, who defeated his Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum by just 37,000 votes in this then-swing state, campaigned on America First principles and Trump-lite issues.
Asked whether he could name an issue on which he disagreed with Trump, DeSantis declined. [6] On August 28, 2018, DeSantis won the Republican primary, defeating his main opponent, Adam Putnam. [7] The general election was "widely seen as a toss-up". [8] On election night, initial results had DeSantis winning, and so Gillum conceded. [9]
Adam Laxalt, Attorney General of Nevada (2015–2019), 2022 nominee for U.S. Senator from Nevada and 2018 nominee for Governor of Nevada (endorsed Ron DeSantis) [170] Bob Orr , associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1995–2004) ( endorsed Kamala Harris ) [ 171 ]
Social media: A 2021 law that sought to bar social-media companies such as Facebook and Twitter from removing political candidates from the companies’ platforms and require them to publish ...
Ron DeSantis recently expanded a measure labelled by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” law prohibiting classroom instruction on issues related to gender and sexuality, which critics argue ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis easily won reelection Tuesday, defeating former Republican governor turned Democrat Charlie Crist in a closely watched contest, the Associated Press projected.
Andrew Demetric Gillum (born July 26, 1979) is an American former politician who served as the 126th mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, from 2014 to 2018.A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a Tallahassee city commissioner from 2003 until 2014, first elected at the age of 23.