Local Politics

Billionaire former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is donating $500,000 to juice Democratic turnout in Miami-Dade County, a place where the party must bank a massive number of votes if it hopes to win the pivotal swing state of Florida. The donation, the largest ever made to the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party, could not only lift Joe Biden’s chan...

A lawsuit asks the Florida Supreme Court to nullify a proposed constitutional amendment that would open primaries to all voters regardless of party affiliation

Defiant as ever about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump on Monday turned his first campaign rally since contracting COVID-19 into a full-throated defense of his handling of the pandemic that has killed 215,000 Americans, joking that he was healthy enough to plunge into the crowd and give voters “a big fat kiss.” There was no social dist...

President Donald Trump will be attending a rally in Florida on Monday, while Vice President Mike Pence will be in the Sunshine State over the weekend. Trump will speak at a rally in Sanford Monday night, his campaign said Friday. Trump had previously said he wanted to try and hold a campaign rally in Florida on Saturday “if we have…

Floridians can make it harder for state constitutional amendments to become reality. On the November ballot is Amendment 4, which would require future ballot amendments to be approved by sixty percent of the voters in two general elections. In effect, it would make it harder for citizen-led petitions to skirt the legislature and change the constitu...

The two-party system in Florida will be on the ballot this November and voters will decide whether to weaken it or to keep it the same.

Florida’s chief information officer is blaming misconfigured computer servers for the crash of the state’s voter registration system

Florida is investigating why its online voter registration system crashed just before the deadline for the upcoming presidential election, saying unexpectedly heavy traffic that can’t be immediately explained poured in during the closing hours

Following criticism from Democrats in South Florida, Joe Biden is finally going after voters President Trump seemed to be winning over. The campaign is spending millions on political ads and Biden himself made campaign stops in Little Havana and Little Haiti ahead of a town hall on Monday. The campaign expects to be back in the coming weeks. Mateo ...

Monday is the final day to register in Florida for November’s election. Registration can be done in person, at a driver’s license office, tax collector’s office that issues driver’s licenses or ID cards, or a Voter Registration office. To register by mail you can print out a registration form available through your Supervisor of Elections Off...

Former Vice President and current democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took part in a pair of campaign events in Miami with his wife Monday prior to participating in an NBC News town hall. Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, visited the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami on their first stop in town. After that event, the Bidens spoke…...

Republicans in Florida are narrowing the voter registration gap with Democrats, underscoring the state’s status as a crucial battleground in November

A majority of Cuban Americans support President Donald Trump and plan to vote for him in November, according to a new Florida International University poll. The FIU Cuba Poll released Friday showed 59% of Cuban American registered voters intend to vote for Trump, compared with 25% who say they will vote for Democrat Joe Biden. Another 10% were unde...