Florida’s Republican-controlled House officially kicked off the first meeting of its select committee on congressional redistricting Thursday, as the state becomes the latest to consider redrawing electoral maps amid a partisan battle for every edge in next year’s midterm elections.

According to betting platform Polymarket, Higgins, who has campaigned on providing affordable housing, has a 94 percent chance of winning the election while González, who worked as a director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under former President George W. Bush, has a 6 percent chance.

With the White House's push for states to draw new maps ahead of the midterms not going as smoothly as planned, the Sunshine State is now entering the fray.

While we're still a year away from the state's gubernatorial election, many are wondering who could be our next governor. Will it be DeSantis again?

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DeSantis argued in a social media post that “a chunk of voters who put them in power in 2024 are Trump-specific voters; they will vote GOP down ballot when Trump is running but won’t turn out to vote for a typical congressman in a midterm when Trump isn’t running.”