Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele

Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele features an exclusive conversation with U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner during his visit to the Tampa area. Turner discusses a housing affordability roundtable with Congresswoman Luna, the strain illegal immigration placed on the housing market under the Biden administration (higher rents, reduced supply, and increased demand), and how securing the border under President Trump is helping lower costs for American families. He details America First HUD policies, tearing down burdensome regulations that add roughly $100,000 to the median home price, FHA support for over 1.5 million homeowners (80% first-time buyers), workforce housing initiatives, a new regulatory best practices guide at HUD.gov, and upcoming acceptance of Vantage Score 4.0 and FICO 10T (including rental and utility payment history) starting January 2027. Turner also highlights partnerships with the Police Athletic League for youth sports activations in Florida communities to build leadership skills, get kids off screens, and strengthen families and neighborhoods. The episode includes Hillary Clinton in battleground Nebraska admitting she would have preferred to win both the popular vote and the Electoral College in 2016, alongside ongoing Democrat efforts (including Angie Nixon) to abolish it. Drew plays unearthed clips of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed criticizing police, saying officers have never been there to help him, and calling for rethinking police power and unions. Drew’s Top 5 audio clips cover James Talarico’s campaign response to health questions, a Democrat county candidate openly saying she would fire all Republicans, Byron Donalds campaigning in blue areas of Miami (Overtown) to represent all of Florida, Mike Rogers on El-Sayed’s Muslim Brotherhood ties and Senate risks, and Judge Janine Pirro on the HSI raid of Ilhan Omar’s home and probable cause. Additional updates include the FBI arrest of a Saudi national at OpenAI for planting a recording device, the launch of SI.gov, Stetson polling showing double-digit leads for Byron Donalds and Ashley Moody, and Governor Ron DeSantis on Panhandle hurricane recovery efforts in Jay and Milton.

Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele delivers conservative analysis on election security, radical Democrat policies, and breaking developments ahead of the 2026 midterms. RNC Election Integrity Communications Director Allie Triolo joins the show to explain why far-left candidate Angie Nixon is a major threat to Florida’s gold-standard election safeguards. Nixon’s agenda includes abolishing the Electoral College, ranked-choice voting, and same-day voter registration. Triolo details the RNC’s successful court defense of Florida’s voter registration matching laws and the Save America Act, doubled poll worker recruitment (over 21,000), thousands of poll watchers and attorneys, deputy election integrity directors in battleground states, and a real-time election night war room. She emphasizes that American elections are for American citizens only, with photo ID and proof of citizenship as common-sense requirements, while highlighting DOJ and DHS actions exposing illegal voting. Drew covers escalating chaos in France and Brussels, where student protests over school funding cuts have turned into riots with cars burning, arrests, and masked protesters declaring “destroy everything.” Greta Thunberg appears in solidarity, raising questions about migration-driven disorder and the gap between official narratives and on-the-ground reality. Additional segments include Florida’s 2026 early voting tracker showing Republicans returning mail-in ballots at a higher rate than Democrats (outpacing 2024 trends), Democrat Congressman Maxwell Frost’s call to stop new fossil fuel infrastructure amid concerns over energy prices and the “green economy,” new White House Press Secretary Katie Zachariah’s first briefing (Kimberly Guilfoyle’s requested resignation as Ambassador to Greece, midterm strategy, expanded new media seat, family priorities, and limited questions prompting CNN criticism), Byron Donalds on the Ilhan Omar home raid and David Jolly’s willingness to sidestep Florida’s Constitution, and scrutiny of Senator Ed Markey’s internship posting encouraging BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other preferred applicants.

Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele breaks down the latest conservative analysis on the 2026 midterms, Florida election integrity, and key state issues. In this episode, Drew reports on surprising mail-in ballot trends in Florida and Michigan showing stronger Republican return rates than in 2024 and 2022 — with Democrats’ early lead narrowing significantly. He covers Mike Rogers’ race against Abdul El-Sayed, highlighting Democratic spillover, concerns over Muslim Brotherhood ties, and voter shifts among African American and Jewish communities in Detroit, Pontiac, and Flint. Florida State Representative Danny Alvarez (District 69) joins the show for an in-depth conversation. Alvarez discusses his visit to the Florida Panhandle supporting Hurricane recovery efforts in Milton, Santa Rosa, and Jay — including downed trees, power poles, emergency management practice, and ongoing needs for residents. He makes the case for Amendment 2, the constitutional amendment he sponsored to eliminate the tangible personal property tax on farm equipment. Alvarez explains how a “Yes” vote keeps Florida farmers and ranchers in business, protects food security, and counters opposition from the modern Democrat Party. He also addresses the broader political shift: old-school Democrats versus today’s progressive/leftist direction, the importance of truth-telling, independents, and why voters cannot afford “status quo” or incremental leftism. Additional coverage includes the HSI raid on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s home (possible immigration/criminal issues, USAID company links to Feeding Our Future fraud reported by Luke Rosiak, denaturalization questions, and implications for her congressional votes), Florida GOP calls for an audit of Angie Nixon’s campaign finances, a major South Florida drug trafficking bust involving cocaine and fentanyl, Florida’s tech startup accelerator, specialized high school admissions debates (merit vs. equity), and updates on Panhandle power restoration.

Meteorologist Dave Roberts reports Hurricane Isaias has strengthened to 100 mph sustained winds about 325 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, with the forecast track narrowed toward a Florida Panhandle landfall. Pensacola sits near the center line, bounded roughly by Mobile Bay and Destin. Landfall is expected Friday night around 9–10 p.m., with sustained winds of 100–120 mph on the stronger eastern side, a 5-to-7-foot storm surge into northwest Florida, Mobile Bay, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, plus heavy rain, flash flooding, and a tornado threat. Shear may limit intensification, but Governor Ron DeSantis says the state is preparing for a possible Category 3, citing Hurricane Michael. Senator Rick Scott and Congressman Byron Donalds urge residents to evacuate if ordered, stock water and food, and follow ready.gov and local alerts.Minnesota U.S. Senate candidate Michele Tafoya describes a safety crisis that includes an alleged Mall of America terror-plot discussion, an evacuated Eden Prairie homecoming game, and dozens of shell casings near a Catholic school, arguing Peggy Flanagan and Rep. Ilhan Omar have treated questions about crime, fraud, and assimilation as racist. The segment also covers Somali community leaders who condemned youth violence while blaming American culture, education, and parents who “work too hard,” alongside the Feeding Our Future scandal and related fraud cases.Sen. Rand Paul highlights federal waste, including roughly $2 million to study hot tubs and stress, about $1 million on fear of dentists, nearly $7 million in cancer-research money for a smart toilet that photographs users, and $48 million in USAID spending on Tunisian youth. Governor DeSantis calls a First District Court of Appeal order expunging the Hope Florida grand-jury presentment the biggest judicial smackdown of his career: the $10 million Centene directed to the Hope Florida Foundation in a $67 million Agency for Health Care Administration settlement was never public Medicaid money and did not violate statute.Drew’s top clips include James Talarico arguing trillionaires cause poverty while veterans sleep on the streets, CNN acknowledging a packed Trump Texas rally, Willie Nelson’s endorsement of Talarico, Vice President JD Vance on outsourcing firms paying H-1B workers about $48,000 less than Americans and the administration’s plan to curb the “pernicious” system, and DeSantis on Panhandle surge risk. Also covered: Rep. Jamie Raskin’s bill to archive what he calls Trump “propaganda” at the Smithsonian, Jimmy Kimmel marking Fox News’s 30th anniversary, and Ana Navarro floating future testimony from Donald Trump Jr.

Hurricane Isaias is forecast to make landfall between Mobile Bay and Navarre Beach Friday evening, October 9, into Saturday morning, with a possible Category 2 or 3 peak before any weakening. Governor Ron DeSantis says the state is preparing for a major hurricane and a lopsided east-side surge that could affect most of the Florida Panhandle, citing Hurricane Michael as a reminder not to under-prepare. Storm-surge warnings cover Bay, Escambia, Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Taylor, and Walton counties, with additional watches inland and in Dixie and Levy; updates are at floridadisaster.org/updates, alongside National Guard activation and staged resources.Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says Army Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter who killed 13 people including a pregnant soldier in 2009 while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” will face a public firing squad of soldiers at Fort Hood on a Thursday at 1 p.m.—the same time and place as the attack—the first such military execution since World War II. President Trump, campaigning in Texas, said the Obama administration had Hasan’s emails to a known terrorist about waging jihad and still labeled the massacre “workplace violence,” denying victims Purple Hearts and related benefits. The discussed execution date is December 3.Democratic socialist Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is set to campaign with Barack Obama after previously saying the country was not better off after Obama’s eight years and that Democrats kept repeating those mistakes. Vice President JD Vance, discussing H-1B fraud, argues that many self-described socialists howl at prioritizing American workers and that, in practice, the label often pairs replacing U.S. workers with foreign labor and boys in girls’ sports. Drew Steele also revisits David Jolly calling DSA-aligned Angie Nixon a “warrior” and “fighter.”News desk items include a continuing blockade of Iranian ports, Trump’s statement that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon and that 22 million barrels moved through the Strait of Hormuz overnight, with no resumption of strikes promised before the midterms; suspensions of Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini from the permanent labor certification program amid the H-1B crackdown Vance tied to Microsoft layoffs; a Labor Department Inspector General probe of alleged J-1 fraud at nine universities; and a 20-year sentence for Palm Coast’s Scott Beverst after more than 16,000 child sexual abuse files.Hans von Spakovsky of Advancing American Freedom explains why Florida-style ballot requests differ from California’s automatic all-mail system and outdated rolls, how ballots end up scattered, why automatic DMV registration plus licenses for illegal aliens creates risk, and how the optional SAVE citizenship database—upheld for willing states—cannot fix states that refuse it. He warns a Democratic House could target funding for those tools, and the show notes Eric Daugherty’s Senate read of Republicans 51, Democrats 44, with toss-ups still in play.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis outlines maximum hurricane response for the Gulf/Panhandle system, with more than 1,000 generators, half a million gallons of gasoline, one million gallons of diesel, over three million MREs, 1.1 million bottles of water, FDOT crews, pumps, heavy equipment, and waived tolls on the Garcon Point Bridge, Spence Parkway, and Mid-Bay Bridge to speed evacuations. Storm-surge forecasts of 5–7 feet near Pensacola Beach and model tracks toward the Mobile area drive the preparedness push for newcomers and longtime residents alike.USDOT Under Secretary for Policy Ryan McCormick joins the show to explain the INFRA program’s focus on freight efficiency, bottleneck relief, and highway safety after a 6 percent drop in traffic fatalities. He details an $85 million award for the I-4 North Capacity Improvement Project, adding a travel lane in each direction for roughly 20 miles between Seminole and Volusia counties, in partnership with Florida DOT Secretary Jared Perdue, to handle record growth in the Free State of Florida.Vice President JD Vance targets Microsoft for laying off about 6,000 American workers while securing roughly 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards, arguing the program functions as wage undercutting—about $20,000 less than comparable U.S. hires, and far more when outsourcing firms are involved—and calls the system rife with fraud that the administration intends to address through existing authority.The Florida’s Voice newsroom covers the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Broward County lawsuit against DraftKings and CEO Jason Robins over prediction-market products alleged to violate the 2021 gaming compact; a First District Court of Appeal order expunging a Leon County grand-jury presentment tied to the Hope Florida Foundation, which DeSantis calls a complete victory while seeking a leak investigation; and an Osceola County undercover operation involving online posing as minors.Drew Steele also pushes back on CNN campus segments citing nearly 12,000 “book bans,” arguing the figures often count relocation of explicit material out of elementary sections rather than removal, and reviews President Trump’s Texas rally for Ken Paxton—packed crowds, Roger Clemens on stage, and a deliberate restatement of earlier remarks that an Iranian missile strike on San Diego or Los Angeles would produce a horror show the U.S. will not allow, paired with claims of lower fuel prices than under the prior administration.

Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele opens with the Gulf system still a tropical depression and tracking toward the Biloxi-to-Florida Panhandle corridor, where the dangerous east side of the storm is expected to bring the heaviest impacts, plus widespread rain already across Central and South Florida.Leadership Institute Florida recruiter Noelle Bradley joins to describe Gen Z and college students showing up at church on their own, rejecting secular hedonism, and connecting Christianity to life, liberty, and the Constitution. She contrasts Florida campuses with places like Massachusetts, which legalized abortion through all nine months, and points students to Leadership Institute training, including the recent Student Action Conference.Steele also covers French protests over school-funding cuts that featured Palestinian flags, students rapping lyrics that glorify the Bataclan ISIS attack, and café patrons sipping wine while streets burned. President Trump’s Oval Office remarks expand Trump Accounts toward every American child, press for lower interest rates than Switzerland, and note he could have pursued Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama but treated the presidency with restraint—while Democrats still cannot name a concrete day-one agenda beyond reversing Medicaid eligibility changes and investigating Trump.Drew’s Top 5 includes Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed opposing oil pipelines, the FBI charging an 18-year-old in an alleged ISIS-inspired Mall of America plot, the Ottumwa, Iowa, city-council invocation that ended in “Hail Satan,” an awkward Kamala Harris campaign stop, and Trump on Biden DOJ tracking of Melania Trump, then-minor Barron Trump, and Susie Wiles. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Greece speech, set against ancient ruins, argues loyalty to one’s own nation is not selfish and that the West should build upward instead of designing for mediocrity. The hour closes on federal changes removing hundreds of thousands of non-citizens from Medicaid, including about 177,000 in Florida, and how outlets framed them as “immigrants with legal status.”Gen Z faith, foreign riots, Florida policy, and conservative commentary—Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele. FLVoiceNews.com.

Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele tracks a Gulf system now at 50 mph sustained winds that meteorologist Dave Roberts says should peak near 110 mph as a Category 2 before landfall just after sunset Friday. The likely track runs from Biloxi, Mississippi, to Destin, with the worst impacts—tornadoes, 5-to-7-foot storm surge, and locally more than 12 inches of rain—on the eastern side from Panama City westward through the Alabama coast. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson says the emergency operations center is staffing up, fuel and linemen are being staged, and teams will support search-and-rescue and road clearing. He also updates screwworm containment with Texas, mealybug response, more than $100 million in Rural and Family Lands projects, and Florida’s winter harvest that supplies about 80 percent of fresh vegetables on the eastern seaboard.Steele questions the “blue wave” narrative as races tighten: Abdul El-Sayed leads Mike Rogers only 48–47 in one Michigan poll, and longer-term voter-registration trends still favor Republicans versus 2024 in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada, and Arizona. In Florida, Byron Donalds and Ashley Moody continue to show roughly 7-to-8-point leads. A “Dumb Democrats” segment covers 43 California members of Congress and Mayor Karen Bass repeating a clipped claim that President Trump invited Iran to bomb Los Angeles and San Diego.Other headlines: DHS seized about $3 million in biodiesel—620,000 gallons—bound for sanctioned Cuba at Port Everglades and Houston after Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Cuban revolution a 60-year failure; Jacksonville Young Republicans unanimously endorsed State House Speaker Pro Tem Wyman Duggan against Mayor Donna Deegan; and Rep. Kat Cammack announced a $3 million federal grant for a construction-trades center at Florida Gateway College. Steele also walks through the expansion of Trump Accounts toward 70 million children, the $1,000 Treasury seed, and whether the accounts could eventually replace Social Security for kids not yet born—and plays the Ottumwa, Iowa, city-council invocation that ended with “Hail Satan,” plus the resident who demanded the curse be reversed.Florida hurricane prep, agriculture, midterm polls, and conservative commentary—Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele. FLVoiceNews.com.

Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele breaks down the stories driving Florida politics and national headlines. On the third anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks that killed more than 1,100 Israelis and took 251 hostages, New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani acknowledged the “horrific war crimes” then immediately blamed Israel for an “ongoing genocide in Gaza.” Steele asks why the Free Palestine left cannot mark the anniversary without the “yeah, but,” and notes a Northwestern University reading of Oct. 7 victim accounts was interrupted by a pulled fire alarm.A Mason-Dixon poll of likely Florida voters shows Republican Byron Donalds leading Democrat David Jolly 48% to 41% in the governor’s race (margin of error ±4). Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey joins the show after deputies arrested a suspect who cleaned out an honor-system bakery stand. Ivey reports crime down nearly 57% over 14 years, credits community partners, and says a Jolly governorship would reverse Florida’s law-and-order gains while Donalds is ready to keep criminals accountable.Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before a Friday–Saturday landfall on the northern Gulf Coast. A hurricane watch covers the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, and Mississippi, with 5–7 foot storm surge possible from the Mississippi River mouth to Yankeetown; Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for 25 counties.Steele also rejects Tampa Bay Times recommendations on Hillsborough County’s three major ballot questions. He supports electing the school superintendent so parents—not a left-leaning board—choose district leadership, is open to expanding the county commission for tighter local representation, and opposes the half-cent school sales-tax extension until there is a full audit of existing dollars, maintenance failures, and administrative spending. Additional segments cover Secretary of State Marco Rubio challenging a reporter’s premise in Greece, an FBI arrest in an alleged ISIS-inspired Mall of America plot, and a woman who posed as a Milwaukee substitute teacher.Listen for Florida midterm analysis, hurricane updates, and conservative commentary on education, crime, and the October 7 anniversary. Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele—FLVoiceNews.com.

Florida’s Voice host Drew Steele interviews American Federation for Children press secretary Brian Jodice on Treasury guidance for the Education Freedom Tax Credit in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Married couples filing jointly can donate up to $3,400 if they have the tax liability, potentially affecting about 42 million households and generating billions for K-12 scholarships, tutoring, and tuition at no cost to state budgets starting January 1, 2027. Florida, already the national leader with more than 500,000 students in private school choice, is partnering through the AFC Scholarship Fund and Step Up for Students. The segment contrasts Byron and Erika Donalds’s school-choice record with David Jolly’s criticism of Florida scholarships.The show also tracks Tropical Depression Nine in the Gulf of America and forecasts it could strengthen near the Panhandle or New Orleans, Trump’s launch of the largest new U.S. shipyard since World War II at Sparrows Point with roughly $7 billion in investment, and another round of headlines from The Guardian, BBC, and others clipping his Nebraska remarks to claim he invited Iran to strike Los Angeles and San Diego. Drew’s top five includes a Michigan Jewish Democrat leaning toward Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, Marco Rubio demanding Russian details on a lab-linked plague death, Gov. Ron DeSantis on state boats stopping 20,000 migrant landings, Randi Weingarten outside an ICE facility, and French riots waved off as school protests while Palestinian flags appear. Additional segments cover Trump floating a $5,000-per-adult refund tied to investment and Obamacare recoveries if Republicans hold Congress, Attorney General Todd Blanche on illegal-voting cases across 15 states, and a 3D-printed “cookie” made from upcycled plastic.