#1 is the best, #50 is the worst
Florida Republicans redrew the congressional map to take four Democratic seats. They lost all four. Democrats broke the Republican supermajority in the Florida House. Byron Donalds outraised David Jolly about six to one and won by 1.3 points, and Mario Diaz-Balart fell from nearly 71% in 2024 to 49.9% after the new map moved his district.
Florida's governor-elect named Tarren Bragdon, founder of the Foundation for Government Accountability, as policy chair of his transition team. Public records show Bragdon's group handed a Florida lawmaker the draft of a 2024 bill loosening limits on how long teenagers can work. Bragdon and his wife gave Donalds' PAC $57,000.
Five days after winning the governor's race, Byron Donalds went on NBC, said he hadn't heard Republicans blame Biden for gas prices, and claimed oil through the Strait of Hormuz had passed pre-war levels. The fact-checkers found the strait was still running below them.
Trump won Florida with 56.1% of the vote to 43%, a margin of 13.1 points, with 67.4% of eligible voters turning out. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
22 of 29 — 76%. In the U.S. House, Florida has 20 Republicans and 7 Democrats, with 1 seat vacant; in the Senate, 2 Republicans and 0 Democrats. (Source: Current members of Congress from Florida, on Wikipedia.)
Florida ranks #27 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
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We grade Republican incumbents running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost Florida. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.