* ICE update: The Miami Field Office averages approximately 120 arrests per day and totals more than 10,000 so far this year—and 41,000 since Trump returned to office. No other region is close. The Miami Field Office includes the state of Florida plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
* Those special election wins by Dems—notably in Hillsborough and Palm Beach counties—have boosted morale about mid-terms, including the 2026 gubernatorial race. “I’m convinced that if the election were held today, we’d win the governorship,” assessed Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly, who has gathered some fund-raising momentum by bringing in more than $900,000 in the last week of March.
Context: Low-turnout, state special elections are not proof of a seismic shift, but they are encouraging. And when Republicans outnumber Dems by 1.5 million registered voters, the key determinant are the independents, who are more likely than GOPsters to be influenced by tariff-tainted prices, an unpopular war with U.S. casualties, ICE Picks and Epstein pedaFILES.
* “Profit is not going to be a bad word when it comes to the education industry.” That was Congressman Byron Donalds, GOPster gubernatorial candidate, on the future of education in Florida. In short, the future of Florida education is about profit and loss as well as teach and learn.
* Speaking of $, Donalds picked up a $3 million campaign donation from the Seminole Tribe of Florida and $7.5 million from billionaire Wall Street trader Jeff Yass.
* “I will continue fighting to permanently ban drilling in the Eastern Gulf and protect our coastal way of life.”—Congresswoman Kathy Castor.
* Attorney General James Uthmeier is targeting the NFL’s “Rooney Rule,” which requires teams to interview minority candidates for coaching and front office roles. He wants to stop its enforcement in Florida. We know this Administration is “anti-woke,” but the “Rooney Rule” as an attorney general priority? Maybe Uthmeier should spend more time on his UF course work.
* The Donald J. Trump International Airport in Palm Beach. What’s next? MAGA-NASA?