Former Republican U.S. Rep. David Jolly is running for Florida governor as a Democrat. Jolly, 52, represented most of Pinellas County from 2014 to 2017 in the House of Representatives. At the time, he was a Republican who had won a mostly Democratic region.

Following the exploratory phase of his campaign this spring, David Jolly says he’s ready to go and has officially entered the Democratic primary for governor of Florida. He acknowledges the challenges about running in an electoral landscape that hasn’t elected any Democrat to a statewide office since 2018,