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The candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump He won the Republican elementary in a special election on Tuesday to replace the former GOP president Matt Gaetz in the first district of Florida Congress.
Associated Press projects that Florida CFO, Jimmy Patronis, will win the GOP candidacy in the district, located in the northern corner -west of the state in the Panhandle region.
He will face the Gay Valimont weapon security lawyer, who ran out of opposition to the Democratic primaries.
Is the primary day in some parts of this crucial state
Patronas, also endorsed by Speaker of House Mike Johnson, They beat other other Republican candidates in the busy primary field. It will be considered the favorite in the general election of April 1 to fill the Congress seat in the very red district.
“A Fourth Floridian generation of Bella Panhandle and owner of an iconic seafood restaurant, Jimmy has been a wonderful friend to me and for Maga,” Trump wrote in a post on social media earlier this month .
Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis and President Donald Trump (Fox News Digital; Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Gaetz abruptly resigned from Congress at the end of last year after Trump touched him to be his general lawyer, and Gaetz retired from the consideration in the midst of the growing republican opposition.
The congressman’s resignation also occurred when the House Ethics Committee had been preparing his report on allegations against Gaetz, which included illicit drug use and sex with a minor, all he has denied.
Among those who lost in front of patronas in the GOP primaries was a former navy veteran who challenged Gaetz last year with the support of Ex -Chamber President Kevin McCarthy.
Trump candidate wins the primary GOP in the Florida race to replace Mike Waltz in Congress
Gaetz triggered the congress maneuver by 2023 that caused McCarthy Ouster of power After less than a year as a house speaker.
Patronas, whose family manages a popular restaurant in the city of Panama, outside the district, was criticized for not living in the district.
He won twice elections throughout the state as a financial director, and until Gaetz left Congress, he was considered a potential candidate for the 2026 Florida race to be successful in limited term. Gov. Ron Desantis.
The CFO of Florida, Jimmy Patronis, offers observations in a campaign event in Sarasota, FLA., November 6, 2022. (Tiffany Tomkins/Bradenton Herald/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)
The Republican and Democrats primary were also held on Tuesday in the sixth district of Florida Congress in the special election to fill the seat he left vacant after GOP representative, Michael Waltz, demolished to act as a national security counselor. The second Trump administration.
The general election in the red district is scheduled for April 1.
With a fragile and thin majority of the knife in the house, the probable reinforcements of Moldy The 1st and 6th Congressional District will be a welcome news to the Republican leadership in the House, as he tries to approve the Trump’s agenda.
