U.S. Congressman and Florida Gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds focused much of his speech to Union County Republicans, last night, on whom he said would be his likely Democratic opponent in November. He identified David Jolly, a former Republican congressman who later became an independent and then a Democrat, as the likely Democratic nominee for governor, and predicted Jolly would run a deliberately vague, low-energy campaign built on soft language about Florida working for everyone. Democrats, Donalds argued, avoid specifics because their actual agenda would be rejected by Florida voters. He also criticized Jolly’s running mate, Jennifer Graham, over her record at the U.S. Department of Education, and recounted his own roots as a Tea Party activist in Collier County to underscore his long commitment to the conservative movement. He closed by calling for party unity heading into the August 19 primary.
