2022 Midterm Elections

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday to create a police force dedicated to pursuing voter fraud and other election crimes, embracing a top priority of Republicans after former President Donald Trump's false claims that his reelection was stolen.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday vetoed a congressional redistricting plan passed by the Legislature and said he was calling lawmakers back to Tallahassee in April to draw lines without a “racially gerrymandered” district in North Florida.

Representative Val Demings talked to FOX 53's Nestor Mato from Fort Myers where is she on tour campaigning to unseat senator Marco Rubio. 

Florida lawmakers on Wednesday passed a voting law package that would create a police force dedicated to the pursuit of election crimes, a proposal pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Florida lawmakers are calling Gov. Ron DeSantis’ bluff that new congressional district lines are dead on arrival at his desk.

The Florida Senate on Thursday teed up a controversial elections proposal that would create a state “Office of Election Crimes and Security” – a priority of Gov. Ron DeSantis – and ban elections officials from accepting money from third-party organizations to fund voting-related expenses.

A former state attorney in central Florida who routinely clashed with Republican officials and law enforcement over her refusal to seek the death penalty during her single, four-year term announced Wednesday she is running for Florida attorney general as a Democrat.

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida said Monday that he will not seek reelection in the fall, becoming the 31st House Democrat to announce plans to leave the chamber in a challenging midterm year for the party.

The Florida House on Wednesday approved new legislative districts over the objections of Democrats, who anticipate legal challenges about minority representation and how the lines were drawn.