Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. NBC News, based on AP data, projects Byron Donalds as the winner of the Florida governor race against David Jolly. At 03:44 CET the gap stood at 117,823 votes, 50.1 to 48.6 percent, with 98.8 percent counted. Two years ago, Donald Trump carried Florida by 13.1 points, and in 2022 Ron DeSantis won the governor's office by 19.4. A race this tight in Trump's home state is, in our reading, one of the clearest signals of the 2026 midterms so far, and Florida now gets a governor who wants a state Bitcoin reserve.