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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Perhaps emboldened by the rush of sweet tea he was sipping at The Floridian, an Old Florida institution here, David Jolly told me he “can get outspent by $100 million and win this race.”
The Florida Democrat may well have to test that argument.
He is confronting the same daunting predicament as other gubernatorial candidates around the country: Democrats are poised to enjoy their best midterm election in two decades, but they may fall short in a series of governors’ races because of the party’s warped donor culture.
Major Democratic contributors and small-dollar givers are flooding Senate hopefuls with cash, but in some of the most politically crucial states they could lose winnable gubernatorial races because they’re being so dramatically outspent by Republican nominees and their allied groups.
In former and future presidential battlegrounds Florida, Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Wisconsin and Nevada, the gubernatorial advertising gap is yawning. For the remainder of the campaign, Republicans are on track to outspend Democrats on television about 6-to-1 in Florida, more than 3-to-1 in Texas, 2.5-to-1 in Georgia, more than 2-to-1 in Wisconsin, and only slightly more narrowly in Ohio and Nevada.
That’s if current trends hold, as Democrats are largely booking week to week. So the difference in what’s already booked is even starker. As Kinetiq Political Insights data tells me, a single Republican, the Georgia gubernatorial nominee, has nearly as much advertising on the books there as Democrats do at the moment in all six of these races combined.
The public and private polling in these contests shows they’re competitive, and GOP strategists tell me that, were it not for their financial advantage, they’d lose most of them.
The Democratic Governors Association, with finite resources and 36 statehouse races on the ballot this year, is not on the air in Florida or Texas a month before the election. They’re spending in Ohio, Georgia and Nevada, where Republicans control the governorship, but are hampered in part because of their obligation to defend their own incumbents and hold those states with outgoing Democratic governors.
Liberal donors swooning over Senate races is not a new phenomenon. But it has accelerated in the age of Trump, and with decidedly mixed results.
Checking the president by controlling Congress is easy to grasp, short enough to fit on a bumper sticker with the right brevity. Nothing animates Democrats like confronting Trump, and flipping the House and Senate does as much.
Also, the attendant Washington-heavy focus of the media, along with social media algorithms that push what draws clicks, means most political hobbyists can tell you the name of big-state Senate candidates but not the party’s gubernatorial nominees (looking at you, Texas).
The problem is compounded for Democrats in capitals where they’re out of power, and have been for decades, because the transactional money from interests with business before state government will be overwhelmingly directed to the incumbent party.
Now, to be fair to Democratic donors, it’s easier to grasp what’s at stake for them and the country when they consider who will have congressional majorities. Particularly for Trump’s final two years, it’s understandable that that would mean more to, say, a Seattle-based contributor than who’s in the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee.
But the left should know better by now. The aftermath of 2020 and the unsubtle steps the president is taking now to seize election machinery should have underscored the importance of state and local elections, particularly for those officers counting or certifying election results.
More consequential, however, are the long-term implications of gubernatorial races this year.
If Democrats can win contests in red-tinted states next month, particularly across the Sun Belt, they’ll have a stronger infrastructure to be competitive in the 2028 presidential race. They would, in other words, have more paths to 270 electoral votes without living and dying with the fate of the blue-wall states across the Great Lakes.
“We don't have a Democratic president; we don't have the person who says, ‘If we win Florida, Texas and Georgia, the road to the White House is restructured,’” Jolly lamented. “There's nobody with that collective party interest to say, ‘We got to focus resources in these two or three states to restructure them in ’28.’ It's just a lot of individual actors at the top.”
When I brought up DGA Chair and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, whose presidential ambitions are no secret, Jolly said his victory would mean “not only does the road to the White House go through Florida, but the road to the Democratic nomination goes through Florida.”
And if his point wasn’t clear enough, he pointed out that Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois, Gavin Newsom of California and Wes Moore of Maryland had all contributed or were planning to come to Florida.
Most of the party’s most prominent figures, though, are focused on federal elections. Former President Barack Obama, for example, has raised money for House Democrats and has a fundraiser scheduled for Senate Democrats but hasn’t yet committed to help Democratic governors.
As large as the next race for the White House looms, 2030 will have a more lasting impact.
The census that year will reshape both the presidential and congressional map, moving electoral votes and House seats south because of population shifts. This will only make the Sun Belt more pivotal.
And if Democrats aren’t competitive there, they’ll not only have a hard time claiming the presidency, they’ll risk being shut out of power in the House in an era when they’ve struggled to win Senate seats in vast swaths of the country (they haven’t had more than 51 senators in their caucus for over a decade).
No, governors can’t automatically deliver states for their presidential nominees. But the chief executives can forge coalitions to demonstrate what's possible while also rebuilding the machinery in states such as Florida and Texas, where the party has atrophied. Neither state has elected a Democratic governor since the '90s. And while Georgia has elected a pair of promising senators, they’ve not elected a Democratic governor this century. And if they don’t this year, neither Sens. Raphael Warnock nor Jon Ossoff may be on the 2028 national ticket given that a Republican would appoint their Senate successor.
Most tangibly, Democratic governors can play a role in redistricting, whether it’s after the next census or in the seemingly perpetual arms race that is reapportionment today.
“If we can run point on the next redistricting, we can claw back four or six congressional seats,” Jolly told me, alluding to outgoing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) middecade redraw to suggest he’d do the same even before the census. “I call it the DeSantis Precedent: Why can't I draw new maps when I get there?"
Between just Florida, Texas and Georgia, there are currently 80 House seats. That number is expected to grow to 88 or 89 after the next census. Add in Arizona and Nevada, the two Western presidential battlegrounds of this era, and the future number could be as high as 114 — five Sun Belt states accounting for over a quarter of the entire House.
Arizona, where Gov. Katie Hobbs is seeking reelection, is likely to remain in Democratic hands — and will as long as Republicans keep nominating Kari Lakes rather than Doug Duceys. But Democrats may not have a better chance at flipping governorships in the rest of these states than this year.
To do so, they’ll have to overcome a mountain of money.
In Texas, that means state Rep. Gina Hinojosa overcoming a three-term incumbent, Gov. Greg Abbott, who entered the year with over $100 million on hand. In Georgia, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is confronting a wealthy executive, Rick Jackson, who has poured over $100 million of his own fortune into the race since the primary. And in Nevada, the gap isn’t quite as vast — but Gov. Joe Lombardo outraised Attorney General Aaron Ford about 5-to-1 in the first half of the year.
In the Midwest, Democrats are facing another self-funder in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, who can continue to write checks against Democrat Amy Acton, after former Sen. Sherrod Brown passed on the race in favor of another Senate bid, in part because, between national donors and super PACs, it's easier to finance. In Wisconsin, Republicans have been elevated by a sudden infusion of over $24 million from three donors. The flood of cash may not be enough to defeat Democrat David Crowley but could have downballot implications should Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany close the race to the infinitesimal margins that have marked Wisconsin elections in recent years.
“Even if he only loses narrowly, the flood of Republican money could keep the state Legislature in GOP hands, denying Democrats a once-in-a-generation shot at unified control of the Wisconsin state government and a chance to undo the GOP’s House gerrymander and address its intentionally restrictive voting laws before the next presidential race,” said former Wisconsin Democratic Chair Ben Wikler.
Back at The Floridian, Jolly conceded that part of his challenge is that Florida has, in the years after Obama carried it twice, taken on the reputation as fool’s gold for Democratic donors, much in the same way as Texas.
“We've had data for six months showing this race tied or us up, and people just struggle to accept the data because it’s Florida,” he said, as TV ads above the bar blared with political commercials. “It’s a lot of heartbreak for people.”
Jolly’s concern is that it’s getting late early — there’s no such thing as an Election Day in Florida. “I think 60% of the state has voted by Oct. 20,” he said.
But if Jolly, a former Republican House member who became a Democrat in the Trump era and whose accent evokes Matthew McConaughey, can narrow the spending gap this month, he may have a chance to spring an upset.
He’s running almost entirely on a mantra of being for housing, health care and education and against data centers.
Polls show him winning enough Republicans and unaffiliates to be close, vital in a state where Democratic registration has collapsed. And Jolly’s GOP opponent, Rep. Byron Donalds, recently took down his website’s Trump endorsement language, only to restore it after it was revealed, and Trump issued a barely veiled threat. (Stephen A. Smith, though, has surfaced on Donalds' mailers.)
Donalds also faces the challenge of overcoming a history of Black Republicans being rejected in gubernatorial and Senate races: No African American conservative has won either, without first being appointed, since Massachusetts Sen. Ed Brooke was reelected in 1972.
Jolly is careful about Donalds’ race and even made a point, at a Black church in Palm Beach County, of acknowledging to the audience that he grasped his opponent’s history-making potential.
That was before the verse-quoting Democrat, the son of a Baptist pastor, laid out a detailed indictment about Donalds' record on race-related issues and brought the audience to their feet by saying Florida schoolchildren must know about the state’s Rosewood massacre.
Jolly said he saw similarities between himself and James Talarico, the Senate candidate in Texas and another devout Christian Democrat.
To compete as a Democrat these days in Florida and Texas, it does take faith. But it also requires cash. And unless Jolly finds more of it, he may wind up coming up just short.
Isn’t the most likely scenario, I argued, that he benefits from an extraordinary Democratic year but ultimately loses by a percentage point and a half or so because the state has just become so Republican and the financial gap is so vast?
“It's always a possibility,” he conceded.
But, sipping his tea, Jolly said Trump’s crushing win here in 2024 didn’t tell the whole story and that a series of special elections pointed to considerable Democratic enthusiasm and Republican apathy.
His conclusion: “Donalds has spent over $80 million, and this race is tied, or we're ahead.”
Cornell University police spoke to witnesses and received anonymous tips about an alleged gang rape at a fraternity house in the first weeks of its investigation two years ago, but the local prosecutor did not review the additional information before deciding not to bring charges.
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said he based his decision not to pursue charges on the accuser’s initial six-page statement given to police.
Investigators from the campus police department documented those witness interviews and other steps taken to determine whether Jane Doe, a 20-year-old woman who reported the incident, was the victim of sexual assault during a party at the Chi Phi house from Oct. 19 to 20, 2024, according police records obtained by NBC News.
Documents reviewed by NBC News offer the most thorough look to date at how police handled the allegations from Jane Doe, who last month filed a lawsuit against Cornell University and seven Chi Phi brothers who she alleges sexually assaulted her over the course of hours while she was under the influence of ketamine, alcohol and marijuana.
Van Houten, along with police and university officials, has come under intense fire for their handling of the matter. Jane Doe’s attorney has argued that she was failed by authorities who did not conduct a thorough investigation and who prejudged the events based on her earlier statement that she consented to parts of the night.
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced the appointment of Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to consider whether charges are appropriate.
“In what world does the district attorney not even interview her or anyone else involved, or even request the full transcript” of the victim’s interview, Hochul asked Friday at a news conference announcing James’s appointment.
On Nov. 25, 2024, a police investigator approached Van Houten’s office to tell them about interviews they’d done.
An investigator in Van Houten’s office, according to the documents, replied that “he and several [attorneys] at the District Attorney’s Office had read [Jane Doe’s] statement … [and] stated that they all agreed that, based on [Jane Doe’s] statement, criminal charges would not be pursued in this case.”
Van Houten defended his decision Monday and said that Jane Doe’s statement did not allege criminality. He also agreed to reopen his inquiry before that role was assigned to the attorney general.
When reached for comment by email Friday, Van Houten argued “there was nothing to review” in that discussion with police because the interviews flagged “were each of the frat members declining to speak on the advice of their attorney.”
Van Houten did not respond to a follow-up request asking whether he was told about interviews with other fraternity members in addition to tips from callers.
The records also show that police received a portion of a larger Snapchat thread where one member of the group announced there was “free p----” in the alumni room of the house, where Jane Doe engaged in what she said was initially a consensual threesome.
“Similarly there was no material obtained by CUPD from Snapchat (what was provided came from a witness),” Van Houten added. “So again nothing to review.”
It was unclear whether Van Houten was aware that on Nov. 26, 2024, police made a request to Snapchat for a more complete data history.
That request was answered on Dec. 23, when police said they obtained 1,665 pieces of data from five Snapchat accounts.
“After reviewing all of the data returned from Snapchat, there appeared to be only 3 snapchats that included [Jane Doe] or mentioned this incident,” a CUPD investigator wrote. “None of these 3 snapchats show anything that can be construed as being criminal in nature. No further action taken.”
Jane Doe was only notified by Cornell police about the district attorney’s Nov. 25 determination not to pursue charges nearly two months later on, Jan. 21, 2025.
Van Houten added that his office had “no part in the timing” of conveying his decision to Jane Doe, who was never interviewed by his office.
Thomas Giuffra, the attorney representing Jane Doe, learned about that delay from NBC News’ request for comment Friday. He said that his client — during that two-month window — believed “they were still investigating.”
“I was unaware that they had made the decision to not prosecute in November,” Giuffra said. “If so, that is worse than I thought.”
On Nov. 7, 2024, two weeks after the incident at Chi Phi, Jane Doe submitted to a sexual assault examination and evidence collection process, according to the police records. She had gone to the university health center shortly after the alleged assault to get treatment for a urinary tract infection, but was not offered a rape kit at the time, Giuffra said. He called it “the first failure post assault when she was trying to get help.” Cornell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The attorney called it “a code or cry for help to say something bad happened” when Jane Doe told them that she “has a UTI of a traumatic origin.” Giuffra said the medical staff should have asked her: “What kind of trauma do you think caused this UTI?”
He noted that had the health center referred Jane Doe to an outside facility for an examination, there might have been recoverable DNA because she was there within 48 hours.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. The hotline, run by the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN), can put you in contact with your local rape crisis center. You can also access RAINN’s online chat service at rainn.org/get-help.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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Donald Trump’s White House expanded its press team Friday, tapping Real America’s Voice correspondent Beni Rae Harmony to be assistant press secretary.
The 24-year-old Harmony, who has served as Real America’s Voice’s White House correspondent since joining the conservative network in September 2025, confirmed her appointment on X Friday evening. TMZ reported earlier that day that she had been scooped up to work for Trump.
“I’m excited to announce that I am joining the Trump Administration as Asst. White House Press Secretary,” she wrote. “It’s been an honor to report, travel and cover this historic administration as Senior White House Correspondent for Real America’s Voice. My goal has always been to ask the questions that matter to real Americans and make sure their voices are heard.”
“I’m incredibly grateful to President Trump for this opportunity and his trust,” she continued. “I’m looking forward to this next chapter – serving the American people and continuing to fight for the American Dream. America First.”
Harmony’s addition to the press team comes as the White House has yet to find a replacement for Karoline Leavitt, who stepped down as White House press secretary at the end of August.
Trump broke the news on Truth Social at the time, writing, “Our wonderful White House Press Secretary, and one of my most trusted aides, Karoline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!”
Leavitt welcomed her second child, a daughter named Viviana “Vivi” Riccio, in May 2026.
As Trump went on, he praised Leavitt’s work in the administration and said she would remain involved in his political operation after leaving the White House, writing, “Karoline will continue on as one of my TOP outside Advisors, and will remain an influential voice within the Republican Party as we head into the Midterms.”
Leavitt, 27, became the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary when Trump returned to office in January 2025.
Following the news of her planned exit, Leavitt wrote on X, “The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary — and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life.”
Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials have stepped in to give press briefings as the press secretary position remains vacant.
The post Trump Finds New Assistant Press Secretary in Real America’s Voice Correspondent appeared first on TheWrap.
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