A transgender woman wins Democratic primary for Florida House seat, and aims to make history
A transgender woman won the Democratic nomination for a Florida House seat on Tuesday night.
Ashley Brundage, the founder and president of Empowering Differences. **She won more than 81 percent of the vote **in Florida House District 65’s Democratic Primary, which means she will now advance to face incumbent Republican Florida Rep. Karen Gonzalez Pittman in November. There, she will have a fighting chance in a district where a majority of voters favored President Joe Biden in 2020 over Republican former President Donald Trump. The district swung red in 2022 as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won a landslide re-election and enacted an anti-LGBTQ agenda.