Florida Politics

Democratic state legislative leaders are speaking out against Gov. Ron DeSantis’s decision to lift local rules requiring mask-wearing and social distancing and a GOP-backed ban on businesses requiring vaccination proof.

Scores of bills related to government transparency have been filed in the state legislature. At least a few have are progressing through committees ahead of regular session.

Despite speculation that President Donald Trump's eldest daughter would challenge Sen. Marco Rubio in next year's GOP Primary.

Two bills recently filed in the state legislature seek to give every local elections supervisor the option to operate countywide polling sites on Election Day, instead of restricting voters to designated precinct sites.

Elections supervisors have been speaking out against a proposal to require voters to request absentee ballots every calendar year, instead of once every two general election cycles.

State Sen. Loranne Ausley, D-Tallahassee, is the latest Florida lawmaker to test positive for the coronavirus since lawmakers began meeting two weeks ago.

Members of the Bay County Republican Party will continue referring to President-elect Joe Biden as president-imposed after he’s inaugurated this week.

Northwest Florida’s Congressional delegation was split along partisan lines in the House’s vote to impeach President Trump.

Leon County officials are working to prevent a repeat of the violence that took place at the U.S. Capitol last week from occurring in the Florida capital.

President Donald J. Trump returns to South Georgia this weekend as a lame-duck leader who will leave office next month. But the president can still mobilize a lot of Republicans, whose votes are needed in two upcoming runoff elections for the U.S. Senate.