“Florida law requires local party leaders to hold a meeting about filling the vacancy created by Rep. Alcee Hastings’s (D) death within five days, but Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has wide discretion on when a special election can be called,” the Washington Post reports.
“In 2014, when a House Republican from southeast Florida resigned, then-Gov. Rick Scott scheduled a primary for three months later, and a general election, which the GOP nominee won easily, two months after that.”


