Republican Michael Carbonara has found plenty of success as an entrepreneur. Now, he feels confident he can unseat the longest-serving Democrat in Florida’s congressional delegation.

As the South Florida businessman challenges U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz , he acknowledges that a run for public office requires sacrifices.

“You give up on the ability to make money and different successes and building that business,” he said. “But if we don’t have a country that allows businesses to thrive and people to have a quality of life that we want, a certain standard of living, if we don’t make those sacrifices now, it’s not going to be there tomorrow.”

Carbonara’s LinkedIn page shows he served as CEO of Gattaca Genomics and Ibanera, and as a Board member of BitLine until Septemb

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