Control of the U. Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz to add some breathing room to their slender majority in the chamber. Randy Fine over two other candidates. Fine represents a Brevard County-based state Senate district located outside the Palm Coast-area seat he hopes to fill. Gun control activist Gay Valimont is unopposed for the Democratic nomination in the 1st District.
Selmont is an attorney and filmmaker who ran for a neighboring congressional seat in John Rutherford. Weil is a public school educator in Osceola County. The district is among the most reliably Republican areas of the state. The four counties that make up the 1st District have voted for Republican presidential candidates almost continually for the past 60 years. Republican presidential candidates have carried all six counties in the district for the last four elections.
The Republican winning streak in some of the counties stretches decades before that. Gaetz resigned after Trump nominated him to be U. As of Friday morning, more than 11, ballots had been cast in the 1st District Republican primary, nearly 17, in the 6th District Republican primary and nearly 10, in the 6th District Democratic primary. On Tuesday, polls close at 7 p. ET in the 6th District and 8 p. ET in the 1st District.
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