'A lot closer than people expected': GOP worries, Dem cash dominate tense Florida special election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Trump has restated his support for Fine on Truth Social, and the Republican Party of Florida jumped in to help the campaign pay for TV ad time, with data from AdImpact showing almost $1 million in ad spending from March 18 to election day.
45% : Do I think they'll be able to get even close to the margins that I received or President Trump received?
43% : He called it a "liberal media" slant to say the race was close because voters viewed it as a referendum on Trump.
42% : "This is an opportunity for us to get in front of Trump's Project 2025 agenda," Weil said, referring to the recommendations from a conservative outside group that Trump disavowed during his campaign while later adopting certain policies.
42% : He also notoriously turned on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during the 2024 GOP primary, flipping his endorsement from DeSantis to Trump and saying the governor hadn't done enough to address antisemitism after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
36% : " Gruters insisted the race wasn't about Fine, but about Trump.
35% : Fine, who embraces the nickname "Hebrew Hammer" from Gruters, is well-known throughout the state as the sponsor of multiple pieces of high-profile legislation, including the push to dissolve Walt Disney World's special tax district and the effort to ban critical race theory from public schools.

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