The battle for control of Congress in the midterms might be over before voting starts.

It all has to do with the political war that is ongoing concerning redistricting. Florida is closely watching the battle in Texas, and many assume it will follow the Lone Star State’s lead.

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez is creating a committee to look at drawing up new districts.

So, what you have now is Florida joining this political donnybrook sweeping the nation from New York to Texas to Indiana to California.

How do you feel about the issues facing Florida, Florida’s legislative leaders, and the candidates shaping the field in the upcoming gubernatorial race to replace Gov. Ron DeSantis?

The UNF Public Opinion Research Lab has the pulse of voters and recently released its latest public opinion poll, which specifically focused on Republican voters in Florida.

Floridians go to the polls to elect a new governor on Nov. 3, 2026. Incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is term-limited and can’t run for a third time in a row.

Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost seems to haunt the Trump presidency.

For President Donald Trump, the Epstein case lingers.

It’s a case steeped in alleged conspiracy and political intrigue. There are reports of the powerful protecting the powerful.

Everything seems steeped in secrecy. That includes the president’s relationship with Epstein, whether or not there’s a client list, and the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death.

Trump wanted the case closed. He still does.

Is the political temperature in America running into the danger zone?

Frankly, research and hard data on political violence aren’t readily available, but a growing trend of threats against public officials can’t be ignored.

In 2024 alone, U.S. Capitol Police, who are like the Secret Service for Congress members, investigated more than 9,000 threats against lawmakers, marking an 83% increase from the year prior. That year, then-former President Donald Trump survived an attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania and another alleged assassination attempt while golfing at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

The two-party system still dominates at the ballot box. And, as the 2024 election bore out, voters still chose a candidate from one of the major parties.

But the new reality is that voter registration rolls show that independent and third-party registration are on the rise.

In the past 25 years, the number of voters not affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican party has grown nearly 9%, according to Ballotpedia.

NBC News recently did an analysis of voter registration data. Its findings proved even more interesting. It found that as of this year, 32% of registered voters across dozens of states and territories chose not to affiliate with either of the major parties. That’s up 23% from 2000.

National exit polls support those numbers.

President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic announcement about a ceasefire between Israel and Iran marked the latest wild swing from the president concerning Iran. Political analyst Daniel Cronrath joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton to discuss the latest developments. 

Let’s talk about that Big Beautiful Bill the House passed, which is now in the Senate’s hands. Political analysts say if you look at the bill closely, yes, it delivers on President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda and cuts taxes.

But they question at what cost.

The answer is that the cost will be to the tune of lost health care for 8.6 million Americans through Medicaid or Obamacare subsidies.

It raises a question that people are asking: Didn’t the Republicans wonder if those cuts would make life difficult for people who are aging, unemployed, working poor or disabled?

Some Democrats say it was a mistake to allow then-President Joe Biden to remain in the 2024 race for as long as they did.

A new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, contains some bombshells and raises some fundamental questions that the Democrats must ask: Did Biden’s team deceive them, or did they deceive themselves? Were their eyes closed to reality?

The bottom line is that the book paints a portrait of a president whose faculties, both physical and mental, were “diminished.” And Tapper and Thompson say aides and advisers hid that from the public.

Since the United States was founded in 1776, 17 popes have presided over the Catholic Church. Until May 8, 2025, none of the men who held the post in the Vatican had been from the United States.

History was made that day when Robert Prevost emerged on the balcony and proclaimed to the thousands of people from around the world who had assembled below in St. Peter’s Square: “La pace sia con tutti voi.” Pope Leo XIV‘s first words were “Peace be with you all.”

Prevost‘s election was stunning news because no one thought an American would or could become Pope. Yet, this son of Chicago‘s South Side won the majority vote of the conclave.

The political future for Ron and Casey DeSantis seems very precarious. Political analysts say it may even be in jeopardy. In fact, those analysts will tell you their more immediate present may also be in jeopardy.

They hoped to establish a dynasty. Then, a scandal tied to Hope Florida surfaced. Claims to the future of the Republican party are very much in question in Florida and nationally.

There are many Florida Republicans who were solidly in the couple’s corner not all that long ago, but they have turned on DeSantis. It has created roadblocks to his agenda.