- With the coronavirus pandemic overshadowing everything, the 2020 year in politics was unlike anything before. Many of the major political trends that emerged in South Florida will continue reverberating well past January's swearing in of a new Congress and inauguration of Joe Biden as president.
- The Lincoln Project, which has strategically tormented President Donald Trump with TV ads aimed directly at him, is deploying the tactic in South Florida, where the president is vacationing.
- Roger Stone, who received a Christmas week pardon from President Donald Trump, delivered a personal thank you to the president on Sunday at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach and says he counseled Trump on how he could remain in office.
- “Everyone’s leaving. They’re moving to Florida," President Donald Trump says. South Florida is poised to become Trump's new MAGA capital after he leaves the White House.
- Pine Crest is an expensive and elite institution, and children of many of South Florida’s elites in the business and legal communities go to school at its Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton campuses
- Michael Barnett, who was overwhelmingly re-elected chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, is a loyal supporter of Donald Trump — but isn’t ready to welcome him to his post-presidential life in Palm Beach. “I’d rather have him in D.C. in the White House,” Barnett said. “I firmly believe he won the election.”
South Florida Sun Sentinel Editor-in-Chief Julie Anderson explains how the newsroom will handle coverage of the 2020 General Election.
- Former Gov. Jeb Bush has emerged as Florida’s most prominent Republican urging his party to stop pushing the fiction that President Donald Trump won re-election. “Let it go. The election is over,” Bush wrote Thursday night on Twitter.
- After President Donald Trump’s unexpectedly easy victory in Florida, Terrie Rizzo won’t be back for another term as chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party. But Democratic activists in Palm Beach County re-elected her to another term leading the county party.
- Newsmax, the conservative cable channel enjoying a surge in post-election popularity, is expanding, with plans to open news bureaus in London, Los Angeles and Miami in the next two months. Another, more immediate shift, is coming: once Electoral College votes are cast on Monday, the channel will refer to Joe Biden as president-elect.
- Florida state government is joining the attempt by Texas to overturn election results in four key battleground states. It's a show of support for President Donald Trump from Florida's Republican attorney general, Ashley Moody.
- As supporters of President Donald Trump continue searching for an information source that gives credence to the idea that he won re-election, upstart Newsmax scored a brief ratings victory over Fox News, the longtime favorite go-to channel for Republicans.
- 2020 saw a Super Bowl in Miami, protests for racial justice, a historical election and a new way of life due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some of our best photos from around South Florida this year.
- With the 2022 election cycle getting started, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political committee raised more than $521,000 in November, a newly filed finance report shows.
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