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Meantly / Midterms 2026 / FL-14
Midterms 2026 · US House
FL-14 House race: Kathy Castor vs Mike Beltran
How the candidates in the Florida's 14th district race are arguing their case, read the same way for each of them. Updated every 15 minutes until election day, 3 November 2026.
Hostility this week 0.9 / 10, in line with their usual.
Audience impact, 30 days: +0.9 leans reassuring
Your costs continue to rise, and corrupt politicians keep cashing in. Florida politicians illegally diverted $10M in taxpayer dollars meant for our neighbors' health care to political activities through Hope FL, and now they’re spending precious time and…
We oversee Title One schools, very significant investment. We help with students with disabilities. It's very important that the extreme politicians in Washington right now are trying to gut again to provide massive tax breaks to billionaires and billionaires…
Since last year, 16,000 of my neighbors have lost their health coverage to fund massive tax breaks for billionaires.
Hostility this week 1.3 / 10 (too little history yet for a personal norm).
Audience impact, 30 days: 0 neutral
I voted against Gov. Ron DeSantis when I had to. In fact, every speaker, I voted against. It has to be a contrast when I’m running against an incumbent. We have to talk about why we should have something different than what we had. She raised more money from…
Go ask any insurance lobbyist in Tallahassee. Which Republican was the biggest pain in their neck in Tallahassee? It was me. I voted against insurance companies more than anyone else in my party.
We absolutely need to address the federal debt and the outrageous deficit that we have. We spend two trillion dollars a year more than we take in; half of that is interest of previously accumulated debt.
My entire political career in Tallahassee, [I’ve] never voted for an unbalanced budget. My opponent in 20 years in Washington has never voted for a balanced budget. That’s the message that we’re bringing to the voters here in Hillsborough County. We’re…
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