Presidential Election

Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott abruptly announced late Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race, a development that surprised his donors and stunned his campaign staff just two months before the start of voting in Iowa’s leadoff GOP caucuses.

The Collier County Supervisor of Elections office will begin mailing a Notice of Election to all active registered voters for the 2024 Presidential Preference Primary Election.This mailing includes important information regarding election dates and deadlines, early voting locations and how to request a Vote-by-Mail ballot.

He’ll be missing from the stage, but Donald Trump will still be a central figure at the first Republican presidential primary debate Wednesday night as the remaining candidates hoping to take on President Joe Biden confront each other in person for the first time.

Donald Trump’s defense attorney says the former president never asked Mike Pence to overturn the will of the voters in the 2020 election, but only wanted the former vice president to “pause” the certification of votes to allow states to investigate his claims of election fraud. Those baseless claims had already been rejected by numerous courts.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ former state political committee transferred $82.5 million to a federal super PAC supporting his presidential campaign and shut down in late May, according to the committee’s website and state records.

A handful of stragglers may jump in later, but as of now there are at least 10 high-profile Republican candidates officially seeking their party’s nomination. And with the announcement phase of the primary campaign largely over, several leading Republican contenders will gather in North Carolina this weekend to begin a more aggressive sorting period.

Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Westside Conservative Club Breakfast, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, in Urbandale, Iowa.

The glitched-filled announcement showcased just how fragile the social media's platform's infrastructure is since Elon Musk took the site over.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to announce his 2024 presidential campaign in a Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk on Wednesday, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.

Several major news media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Tampa Bay Times, reported Thursday that the Florida governor is expected to file paperwork declaring his candidacy with the Federal Election Commission next week.