FORT MYERS, Florida — The Sunshine State is famously a place where people go for a fresh start. In the political realm, a looming Florida congressional Republican primary is testing the outer boundaries of that adage.
The 12 Republican candidates, so far, for Florida’s 19th Congressional District include a pair of former House members from other states: Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina and Chris Collins of western New York. Both left office under less-than-ideal circumstances.
A former state senator in Illinois, Jim Oberweis, is running to represent the 19th District, covering the Fort Myers and Cape Coral area, plus Naples to the south. So are businesswoman Ola Hawatmeh, who lost a 2020 congressional bid in New York, and Catalina Lauf, a Commerce Department official during President Donald Trump’s first,
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