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Politico's Kimberly Leonard joined "The Florida Roundup" to discuss what the results of the 2026 midterm elections mean for Florida's political future.

Republicans maintained the sizeable advantage they've been growing since 2021 in overall registered voters, with nearly 5.69 million registered Republicans compared to almost 4.15 million Democrats.

A packed house heard speeches by Vance, Byron Donalds, Ashley Moody, Anna Paulina Luna and other Republican candidates.

Voting in the Aug. 18 primary surged over the weekend as the in-person early voting option became available statewide.

The university says the Florida Federation of College Republicans disbanded the chapter after it found members broke its rules, citing an apparent antisemitic gesture.

It's the second time this month that a Florida public university has taken action against a Republican group accused of being involved in racist or antisemitic behavior.

"Let's be clear, in Virginia and New Jersey, the GOP would have had a much better chance of winning if the Hispanic vote would have stuck with the GOP," Salazar said in her widely viewed social media post

The University of South Florida College Republicans and the Pinellas County Young Republicans filed a request for a three-judge panel to hear their lawsuit.

Florida Democrats have continued to stumble in the state. Rebuilding the party was a focus of a panel diascussion at a Capital Tiger Bay Club meeting in Tallahassee.

In a poll of registered Republicans, the first lady leads by 3 percentage points. Meantime, about 40% said they’ve never heard of Donalds, the congressman from Southwest Florida.

Florida's red is getting deeper, with Republicans voters outnumbering Democrats by 956,000, according to new data from state Division of Elections.

President Trump warned about a "radical Democrat mob" at his rally in Pennsylvania. He used the term over the weekend, and other Republicans have echoed such strong language in the runup to Nov. 6.