A federal court twice dismissed a lawsuit — joined by Florida governor candidate Byron Donalds — to overturn the 2020 Census count, calling further arguments futile.
A watchdog says the Florida governor front-runner failed to disclose up to $1.6 million in stock trades — after he went on TV demanding other members of Congress be punished for the exact same thing.
A Collier County school board member is suing Byron Donalds, saying he berated her and threatened to 'crush' or 'finish' her during a 2022 grocery store confrontation.
We all want leaders who work for us. But Byron Donalds' record makes clear who he really works for.
As a congressman, his top funders included:
Koch Inc — the oil and gas empire that has spent decades funding climate denial and cutting environmental regulations.
GEO Group — one of the largest private prison companies in the country. GEO Group paid Donalds $16,000 in the 2024 cycle. As governor, Donalds would oversee Florida's prison system — including contracts with GEO Group.
Andreessen Horowitz — the Silicon Valley venture capital firm pushing to deregulate crypto and tech at the expense of everyday investors.
Robinhood Markets — the app that gamified investing and has faced federal sanctions for harming its own customers.
AIPAC — the pro-Israel lobbying organization that spent over $14,000 on Donalds in 2024.
Florida's electric utilities — Donalds has taken $1.13 million in campaign contributions from Florida's investor-owned utilities — while our electric bills exploded (Tampa Electric up 86%, Duke Energy up 49%, FPL up 45% since December 2020). As Governor, Donalds would appoint the Public Service Commission that approves those rate hikes.
Donalds didn't work for us in Congress. He won't work for us as Governor.
Florida is on the front lines of climate change — rising seas, stronger hurricanes, dying coral reefs, and the collapse of the Everglades. We need a governor who will fight for Florida's environment.
Instead, Donalds:
Earned a 0% score from the League of Conservation Voters in 2025 — voting against environmental protection on every single tracked vote.
Has a 1% lifetime LCV score — among the worst environmental records in the entire United States Congress.
Has taken money from Koch Industries, whose businesses profit from the fossil fuels driving Florida's climate crisis.
Byron Donalds would be the worst thing to happen to Florida's environment in a generation. We deserve better.
We deserve leaders who respect our personal freedoms, including the right to make our own healthcare decisions.
Byron Donalds doesn't believe that. He:
Scored a 0% rating from Reproductive Freedom for All — voting against reproductive freedom on every tracked vote in 2024, including opposing contraception access, voting to restrict servicemembers' abortion access, and funneling taxpayer money to anti-abortion centers.
Has stated he believes in protecting life "from conception to natural death" — with no exceptions.
As governor, Donalds would have direct power over Florida's abortion laws, enforcement of existing bans, and access to reproductive healthcare statewide.
Donalds would use the governor's office to restrict our reproductive freedom even further. We deserve better.
When Elon Musk's DOGE was cutting federal programs and firing federal workers, Byron Donalds didn't just stand by — he tried to make the cuts permanent. Donalds was an original cosponsor of the DOGE Act, a bill to codify DOGE's cuts into permanent law. A governor is supposed to fight for his state's share of federal services — Donalds fought to make sure the cuts could never be undone.
The peaceful transfer of power is the foundation of our democracy. Byron Donalds attacked it — and wants us to put him in charge of Florida's election system.
Just hours after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, Donalds voted to reject Biden's win — and he had the gall to vote against certification a second time after the Capitol attack.
We deserve leaders who bring people together. At a June 2024 Trump campaign event in Philadelphia, Byron Donalds told the crowd that "during Jim Crow, the Black family was together" — arguing Black families were more intact and more Black people voted conservatively during the era of legal racial segregation, before Democratic social programs.
The comments drew swift, bipartisan condemnation. Donalds said critics had twisted his words and denied claiming Black people were "better off" under Jim Crow — but invoking one of the most brutal chapters of American history as a high point for Black families was widely criticized.
Jim Crow was a system of segregation, disenfranchisement, and racial terror — not a model for anyone's family. We deserve better.
In September 2024, the watchdog Campaign Legal Center asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Donalds for failing to disclose more than 100 stock trades worth up to $1.62 million — more than a year late, in violation of the STOCK Act. He was the only member of Congress the group found who failed to report any trades at all for two straight years. Some were in companies he helps regulate on the Financial Services Committee, that donated to his campaign, or that lobbied bills he sponsored.
Donalds wants to be Governor. He couldn't follow the basic disclosure rules he demanded others obey. We deserve better.
