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Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending Florida lawyer wide Ashley Moody from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C. to capable Marco Rubio’s spot successful the U.S. Senate.
Rubio is successful the midst of the confirmation process to service arsenic President-elect Donald Trump's caput of state.
A 49-year-old parent of two, Moody has served arsenic the state’s apical authoritative since 2019, having antecedently worked arsenic an adjunct U.S. lawyer and a circuit tribunal judge.
The Republican authorities lawyer wide has supported lawsuits to invalidate the Affordable Care Act, known arsenic Obamacare, and pushed against restoring voting rights for felons and marijuana legalization.
Her husband, Justin Duralia, serves arsenic the lawman main of the Plant City Police Department successful Hillsborough County.
As senator, Moody promised to enactment to undo regulations instituted by authorities agencies and shrink the national budget.
"The lone mode to instrumentality this state to the people, the radical who govern it, is to marque definite we person a beardown Congress doing its job, passing laws and really approving the regulations that these unelected bureaucrats are trying to cram down connected the American people," she said.
"I've got the backs of the American people," Moody went on. "I americium driven by galore things successful life. I volition bring the power of galore things, successful my life, my experiences certainly, but I americium driven by my religion successful God. First and foremost. I americium driven by the information that I americium a parent and I inactive person a kid successful schoolhouse … I'm a trained accountant, truthful I tin shrink the bloat of the national government."
Initially, Trump and Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Rick Scott, R-Fla., endorsed Trump's daughter-in-law and erstwhile RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump to win Rubio. But past month, she said she withdrew her sanction from consideration.
Moody volition person to tally to support the spot successful a 2026 peculiar election, and House Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., has already said helium volition tally for the seat.
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Moody has worked in tandem with DeSantis to beforehand his agenda. Most precocious she filed a suit against the Department of Justice for what she claimed was a national authorities effort to artifact Florida’s probe into the 2nd Trump assassination attempt, which occurred astatine his Mar-a-Lago play course.
Last year, she sued the Biden medication for a regularisation she argued would unit doctors to supply sex modulation care.
In 2024, she besides petitioned the Supreme Court to disqualify a Florida ballot measurement to grow termination entree by arguing its connection could mislead voters.
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