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Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody from Tallahassee to Washington, DC to fill Senator Marco Rubio’s US Senate seat.
Rubio is in the midst of the confirmation process to serve as president-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state
Moody, a 49-year-old mother of two, has served as the state’s top prosecutor since 2019, after serving as an assistant U.S. attorney and circuit court judge. The state’s Republican attorney general has backed lawsuits to overturn the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, and has pushed against restoring voting rights to felons and legalizing marijuana.
Her husband, Justin Duralia, is the deputy chief of the Plant City Police Department in Hillsborough County.
As a senator, Moody promised to work to undo regulations instituted by government agencies and reduce the federal budget. “The only way to return this country to the people, to the people who run it, is to make sure that we have a strong Congress that does its job, passing laws and actually passing the regulations that these unelected bureaucrats are trying to suppress to Americans. people,” he said.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody from Tallahassee to Washington, DC, to fill Sen. Marco Rubio’s U.S. Senate seat. (Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I have the back of the American people,” Moody continued. “I’m driven by many things in life. I’ll bring the influence of many things, in my life, my experiences, no doubt, but I’m driven by my faith in God. First of all. I’m driven by the fact that I’m a mother and I still have a son in school…I’m a trained accountant, so I can undercut the federal government’s inflation.”
Trump and Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Rick Scott, R-Fla., initially endorsed Trump’s daughter-in-law and former RNC co-chair Lara Trump to succeed Rubio. However, last month, he said he retired his name for consideration.
Moody will have to run to keep the seat in the 2026 special election, and House Rep. Cory Mills, R-Florida, has already said he will run for the seat.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has been a key ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis. (DeSantis 2024)
Senator Marco Rubio is vacating his Senate seat to serve as Secretary of State. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Moody has worked closely with DeSantis to promote his agenda. He recently filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice because what he claimed was an effort by the federal government to block Florida’s investigation into Trump’s second assassination attempt, which occurred at his Mar-a-Lago golf course.
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Last year, she sued the Biden administration over a rule she said would force doctors to provide gender transition care.
In 2024, he also filed a petition Supreme Court disqualify a Florida ballot measure to expand access to abortion on the grounds that its language could mislead voters.
