Cultist Jimmy Patronis Wins Race To Replace Gaetz

The Pensacola News-Journal reports:

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis will be Northwest Florida’s next Congress representative. The Associated Press called the race for Patronis at 7:20 p.m. as Patronis was leading Democrat Gay Valimont by about 9 points.

Patronis had 96,717 votes, 56.97%, and Valimont had 71668 votes, 42.22%, as of 8:50 p.m. Non-party affiliated candidate Stephen Broden took about 1% of the vote.

“CD1 is where the hopes and dreams of the Democratic Party come to die,” Patronis told a crowd of supporters in a victory speech Tuesday night from the Fish House restaurant in Pensacola.

Read the full article. Patronis is best known here for calling for Florida legislators to create a $5 million fund to pay Trump’s “lawfare” bills.

FL-01 Special Election Results

Jimmy Patronis (R) 57.0% (97,176)
Gay Valimont (D) 42.2% (71,845)

This is a 22 point overperformance for Democrats from 2024 (Trump +37).

— VoteHub (@VoteHubUS) April 2, 2025

Matt Gaetz’s super PAC sent out a fundraising email for Randy Fine and Jimmy Patronis with the subject line “ TODAY, we are LOSING the House Majority.”

But the thing is only 1% goes to each candidate. The other 98% goes to Gaetz’s PAC pic.twitter.com/xZQnpRmfBo

— Reese Gorman (@reesejgorman) April 1, 2025