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Florida elections 2026 · Governor, Attorney General & CFO

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Florida votes Nov. 3 for governor, attorney general and chief financial officer. Companies the state owes for immigration detention have given to some of those candidates and not to others. Every line is one record from a named source. Candidates who took $0 are drawn too.

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$3.5M SPONSOR DONOR The GEO Group CANDIDATE · GOVERNOR (R) Byron Donalds via Friends of Byron Donalds SOURCE REGISTER 7 sources FEDERAL BILL · NOT ENACTED H.R. 8430 1 · CONTRIBUTION REPORTED WUSF, Sept. 30, 2026 2 · BILL SPONSORED May 16, 2024 3 · RECORDS LINKED
01Follow the contributionGEO Group gave $3.5 million to Friends of Byron Donalds, in four contributions from Dec. 2025 to Oct. 2026, Division of Elections records show. WUSF first reported the first $2.5 million.
02Connect the billAs a congressman, Donalds sponsored H.R. 8430 in May 2024. GEO’s 2024 lobbying reports list it. It did not become law.
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Sources: WUSF (Meghan Bowman, Sept. 30, 2026); Congress.gov, H.R. 8430, checked Oct. 15, 2026.Records with different dates and purposes. No exchange is alleged.

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Contributions: FL Division of Elections, committee and candidate accounts pulled Oct. 16, 2026 (Donalds: committee only). Amounts owed and lobbying: WUSF (Sept. 30, 2026), citing FDEM and LDA filings; Congress.gov. ? = not fully checked: only direct GEO Group contributions to the candidate account were reviewed.Contributions only on lines. Amounts owed are a separate ledger.
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