The Latest Breaking News from Florida

Zander Moricz’s advocacy will ‘reverberated across the country’, says frst openly gay US cabinet secretary

Man was driving when Jordan Patrick Leahy spewed racial slurs and attempted to run him off the road

Review of court and election papers raises questions about whether the 19 people charged knowingly committed fraud

Anti-"woke" right-wingers score major victories in Miami, Sarasota — but elsewhere in Florida, liberals push back

Welcome to the Thursday, August 25, Brew. 

The dust from Florida’s primary elections hasn’t yet settled. But to hear Marco Rubio tell it, his November campaign is already in trouble.

It’s a rare talent, for a politician’s actions to appear both chilling and silly at the same time. Gov. Ron DeSantis — who from the start has built his personal political brand by resurrecting and weaponizing bigotry that most people believed had been laid to rest —pulls it off regularly.

The state’s arrest last week of 20 Floridians on charges of voter fraud had nothing to do with election integrity and everything to do with intimidating voters. This was a small-potatoes racket that’s threatening to expand when what Florida needs is a better system for ensuring legal voting in the…

Primary elections in Florida on Tuesday provided yet another illustration of how the parties differ when it comes to dealing with their cranks (and worse): Republicans seem to be more tolerant than Democrats.