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Ex-GOP congressman launches Democratic gubernatorial campaign in Florida If David Jolly's effort to run a Republican-turned-Democratic gubernatorial campaign in Florida sounds familiar, it's not your imagination.

June 5, 2025, 12:15 PM EDT / Updated June 5, 2025, 12:24 PM EDT

By Steve Benen

David Jolly was a Republican member of Congress for a couple of terms, serving his Tampa-area constituents before losing a re-election bid in 2016, narrowly coming up short against Charlie Crist — a Republican-turned-Democrat who ended up running for governor.

Nearly a decade later, an eerily similar set of circumstances are unfolding: Jolly, like Crist, left the Republican Party. Jolly, like Crist, became a Democrat. And Jolly, like Crist, is now running for

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