In Florida's District 14, Kathy Castor, an incumbent, shellacked her opponent, Christine Quinn to retain a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Castor joins Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist who was reelected for Florida’s 13th Congressional District for a third term, defeating Republican challenger Anna Paulina Luna.
With 100% of precincts reporting, Castor has 60.2% of the vote, while Quinn—whose past social media posts included multiple QAnon hashtags—took just 39.8%, according to the New York Times.
Elsewhere in the race to represent for Tampa Bay in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats Margaret Good, Alan Cohn, and Kimberly Walker all lost in their districts where their GOP opponents—Vern Buchanan, Scott Franklin and Gus Bilirakis—all won their races.
Castor has previously defeated Quinn, so her win is no surprise.
Tampa native Castor is almost always on the right side of history on many issues Take LGBTQ equality. Years before even the likes of Barack Obama were publicly “evolving” on same-sex marriage, Castor was going against the grain.
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This article appears in Nov 5-11, 2020.