The result dashes Democrats' hopes of pulling off a major upset in a district Donald Trump carried last November.

Republican Jimmy Patronis beat Democrat Gay Valimont. The party also held another Florida seat in Tuesday's special election.

Republican state Sen. Randy Fine has won the special election to represent Florida’s 6th Congressional District.

The race to represent Florida’s 1st Congressional District was seen as a bellwether for Trump's support in deep-red areas.

NBC News projects victory for the GOP in the seat formerly held by Michael Waltz, who resigned to join the Trump administration.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is forcing a vote on legislation to enable new parents serving in Congress to vote remotely in the weeks surrounding the birth of their child. Luna introduced the measure as a "privileged resolution" on Tuesday, which gives House leaders two legislative days to take up the measure.

House Speaker Mike Johnson endured a decisive defeat Tuesday after he staged an unusually aggressive effort to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than

Nine House Republicans bucked leadership on Tuesday and joined all Democrats in voting against a procedural hurdle to kill a discharge petition that allows new parents to vote remotely. Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL),