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She was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Florida and faced Republican nominee Rick Scott in the 2010 Florida gubernatorial election, losing to Scott by a 1% margin. [3] Sink also ran as the Democratic nominee in the 2014 special election for Florida's 13th congressional district, losing to Republican David Jolly on March 11, 2014. [4]
Alex Sink, the CFO of Florida, was mentioned as a possible candidate to run for Senate or Governor in 2010, [7] [8] but initially declined. When Charlie Crist announced he would not run for re-election, Sink immediately announced her campaign for governor. Sink was the wife of Bill McBride, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2002.
In Florida, the governor and lieutenant governor run as a ticket. Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink won their respective party's primaries; Scott named Jennifer Carroll as his lieutenant-governor running mate while Sink named Rod Smith. Scott would go on to win the general election by plurality, thus holding the seat for the GOP.
It was the beginning of an incredible run of tight races in Florida, with every contest for governor and president decided by a percentage point or less between 2010 and 2018, when DeSantis was ...
Alex Sink, former Chief Financial Officer of Florida, nominee for governor in 2010 and nominee for Florida's 13th congressional district in 2014 [45] Rod Smith , former chairman of the Florida Democratic Party , former state senator and nominee for lieutenant governor in 2010 [ 46 ]
On August 17, 2010, Rod Smith was announced as the running mate for Alex Sink on the Democratic ticket for the race to succeed Crist, who chose to run for election to the U.S. Senate rather than for re-election as governor. On November 2, the Sink/Smith ticket lost to the Republican Scott/Carroll ticket by a 1% margin.
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
Governor Rick Scott was elected with 48.9% of the vote in 2010, defeating then-Chief Financial Officer of Florida Alex Sink by a margin of just over 1 percent. [91] He announced his bid for a second term [92] and faced former Republican governor turned Democrat Charlie Crist [93] and Libertarian Adrian Wyllie. [94]