WASHINGTON - Florida Republican Jimmy Patronis beat Democrat Gay Valimont in Tuesday’s special election to fill a former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz's House of Representatives seat, a critical win for ...

An eternity stretches between now and any real moves in the Democratic Party’s next presidential nominating contest. But the ...

There’s a bitter irony in unrelated headlines coming out of the April Fools’ Day special elections.

Matt Gaetz's seat in Congress, with a 33% voter turnout countywide, according to notice. Republican candidate Jimmy Patronis defeated Democrat Gay Valimont by 15 points - the narrowest win by a ...

Jimmy Patronis, the state’s chief financial officer, fended off a challenge from Democrat Gay Valimont to win the northwest Florida seat vacated by Matt Gaetz but also underperformed Gaetz's ...

When the results came in late Tuesday, Democrat Gay Valimont had fallen short of winning a congressional ... took 44% of the vote in this county compared to Gaetz's 55%. He spent months working with ...

Ewan Palmer is a Newsweek News Reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on US politics, and Florida news. He joined Newsweek in February 2018 after spending several years working at ...