Florida Republican Party

The retreat comes five days after the First District Court of Appeal denied Attorney General James Uthmeier's own emergency bid to block the same ad.

An appeals court ordered a grand jury report about the controversy struck from the court record. The Florida GOP says a Democratic campaign ad targeting AG James Uthmeier illegally broadcasts expunged findings.

With two departing incumbents, a crowded race is heating up to fill three Pasco County School Board seats. Some are veteran teachers, and others have business or political commentator backgrounds.

With the Rays under new ownership led by a major DeSantis and Republican donor, the governor is striking a different tune when it comes to funding sports stadiums.

Defend Florida, a Sarasota-founded election denial group, has seen its political clout collapse as Republican lawmakers distance themselves from its conspiracy-fueled demands for tighter voting rules.

The Republican Party of Florida has sold more than $125,000 in merchandise branded with "Alligator Alcatraz." The state's Democratic Party said the GOP is profiting from people's suffering.

Florida's political leaders urged people to pray following news that conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot to death during a campus event in Utah.

A line of deportation-themed shirts, hats and other knickknacks for sale on the state Republican Party website bore a logo similar to the natoinal hardware chain.

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The state GOP party calls Wiles "the strategic force behind some of the most consequential political victories in recent American history," from Rick Scott to Donald Trump.

The latest voter rolls in the county now show 464,370 registered Republicans, or 34% of voters, 440,790 Democrats, or 32.27%. Independent and third-party voters together number 460,783, or 33.7%. Those numbers come via Michael Pruser, the director of data science with Decision Desk HQ.

John Morgan, who is semi-retired to Hawaii, has teased a run for governor for years but isn't advocating for the Republican or Democratic parties. Pizzo dropped his party affiliation after stepping down as Senate Democratic leader on April 24.