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GOP Candidate Wins Florida Special Election

HeadlineMar 12, 2014

Republican David Jolly has won the year’s first congressional race, a special election in Florida to fill the seat vacated by the death of Congressmember Bill Young. Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink by under 4,000 votes. Republican groups flooded the campaign with millions in outside spending in a bid to cast the vote as a referendum on Obamacare ahead of the mid-term elections.

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