Former Republican U.S. Rep. David Jolly is running for Florida governor as a Democrat.

Jolly, 52, represented most of Pinellas County from 2014 to 2017 in the House of Representatives. At the time, he was a Republican who had won a mostly Democratic region.

But after Republicans’ embrace of President Donald Trump during his first presidency, Jolly left the party and became an independent and outspoken Trump critic.

He joined MSNBC, where he was a political commentator for the past eight years. He teamed up with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang to build a third political party , called Forward.

But Jolly told the Tampa Bay Times he’s considered himself part of the Democratic coalition for a while, and his registration change in April just made it official.

“I waited a li

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