I honestly cannot believe how many people who call themselves conservatives are announcing that they will vote for David Jolly simply because they hate Byron Donalds.
You do not have to like Byron. I certainly do not. I did not support him in the primary & my problems with him did not magically disappear when he won.
But before you vote for Jolly, understand exactly what you are voting for.
1. CODIFYING ROE & CASEY
Jolly wants Florida to codify the Roe & Casey abortion framework into state law.
2. BANNING SO-CALLED ASSAULT WEAPONS
Jolly wants Florida to ban the sale of firearms Democrats classify as assault weapons.
3. GUN LICENSING & MORE RED FLAG LAWS
He supports universal background checks, wants Florida to consider gun licensing & wants to expand red flag laws.
4. MEDICAID EXPANSION
Jolly wants Florida to expand Medicaid & dramatically increase the government’s role in healthcare.
5. RESTRICTING SCHOOL CHOICE
He wants school vouchers means-tested & private schools accepting vouchers placed under additional government mandates. That means fewer families qualifying & more state control over private education.
6. MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING
Jolly calls for a dramatic increase in state spending on public schools without clearly explaining where all that additional money will come from.
7. A STATE CATASTROPHE INSURANCE FUND
He wants natural-disaster risk removed from private insurance companies & placed under a state-backed catastrophe fund.
8. STATE-BACKED CONDOMINIUM LOANS
Jolly wants the state to provide interest-free loans to condominium owners & associations. Government-backed loans involve public money & public risk.
9. GOVERNMENT-MANDATED RENEWABLE ENERGY
He wants Florida to require greater use of renewable-energy technology by public utilities & adopt a statewide climate & sustainability agenda.
10. MAKING FLORIDA’S CONSTITUTION EASIER TO CHANGE
Jolly wants constitutional amendments easier to place on the ballot. He also says the governor should fight to enact any amendment receiving more than 50% of the vote. Florida currently requires 60%. That 60% protects our Constitution from being rewritten by a temporary, razor-thin majority.
11. EXPANDING LOCAL CONTROL OVER POLICING
Jolly wants more local control over community policing while placing specific emphasis on racial & immigrant disparities in the criminal justice system.
12. REVERSING FLORIDA’S APPROACH TO GENDER-RELATED MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR MINORS
Jolly says government should stay out of gender-related medical decisions made by families & doctors. For accuracy, he has not publicly said he supports surgeries on young children. What he supports is removing government from these decisions involving minors instead of maintaining Florida’s current restrictions.
13. OPPOSING REPUBLICAN IMMIGRATION POLICIES
Jolly has criticized Republican immigration enforcement, arguing that it tightens the labor supply & increases costs. His campaign says Florida should embrace immigrant communities but offers very little detail about illegal immigration, cooperation with federal enforcement or sanctuary policies.
This is not a collection of Republican accusations. Most of it comes directly from David Jolly’s own campaign platform & public statements.
You have every right to vote for whomever you choose. But hatred for Byron Donalds does not transform David Jolly’s agenda into a conservative agenda. A vote against Byron is still a vote for Jolly. It is a vote for abortion protections, gun restrictions, Medicaid expansion, more government spending, climate mandates, weaker protections for Florida’s Constitution & the reversal of policies conservatives spent years putting into place.
If you support all of that, own it. But if you vote for Jolly while calling yourself a conservative, you need to change your label because you are not conservative by any stretch of the imagination.
There is nothing Jolly about Jolly.
One Allegiance. One Country. America First.
Nancy Mace is forcing a conversation this country has avoided for far too long. She introduced a constitutional amendment requiring members of Congress, federal judges, and Senate-confirmed federal officials to be natural-born American citizens. The President must already meet that standard. Why should the people writing federal law, confirming judges, receiving classified intelligence, directing foreign policy, and deciding how American power is used be held to anything less?
One allegiance. One country. No question about where your loyalty belongs when you hold power over the American people. That is not extreme. That is common sense.
Start with Ilhan Omar. She was born in Somalia and became an American citizen years later. In 2024, while speaking in Somali to an audience in Minnesota about a dispute involving Somalia, Somaliland, and Ethiopia, she discussed using her position in the United States government to protect Somalia.
The widely circulated English translation quoted her saying: “The U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the United States tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders, and that is how we will safeguard the interests of Somalia.”
That exact translation has been disputed, and Omar claimed the subtitles were inaccurate. Fine. Then look at what independent translators agreed she did say: “For as long as I am in Congress, no one will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia, and the United States will not support others who seek to steal from us.”
Read that again. “For as long as I am in Congress.” “The seas belonging to the nation of Somalia.” “Steal from us.”
She was not speaking as an official of Somalia. She was speaking as a sitting member of the United States Congress, referring to Somalia as “us” and promising to use her position inside the American government to protect Somalia’s territorial interests. People can argue over one disputed translation until they are blue in the face. The independently translated words are bad enough.
Omar has also trafficked in antisemitic tropes, accused Americans who support Israel of pushing allegiance to a foreign country, opposed funding for immigration enforcement, and said she would not vote to give ICE “a single cent.” She did not say she wanted a smaller increase. She did not say she wanted minor reforms. “Not a single cent.” This is a member of Congress helping decide whether the American government can enforce American immigration law.
Then there is Pramila Jayapal, born in India and now one of the most powerful progressives in Congress. In April 2026, Jayapal traveled to communist Cuba, met with Cuban government officials and foreign ambassadors, and then released a statement calling American restrictions on fuel entering Cuba “illegal,” “cruel collective punishment,” and “effectively an economic bombing of the infrastructure of the country.”
She said: “The remaining obstacles to progress in Cuba now rest with the United States changing our outdated, Cold War-era policy of coercive economic measures and military pressures against Cuba.”
Not the dictatorship that imprisons dissidents. Not the government that crushed free speech, destroyed private enterprise, drove millions of Cubans into exile, and denied its people free elections for generations. According to Jayapal, the remaining obstacle is the United States.
She also acknowledged communicating with foreign diplomats about getting fuel into Cuba while the United States was applying pressure to the communist regime. I am Cuban-American. My family knows exactly what that regime is. I do not need someone born in India, sitting safely in the United States Congress, visiting Havana and returning with the dictatorship’s talking points about America being the problem.
Shri Thanedar was also born in India. He has called for abolishing ICE, the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws inside the United States. His proposal was not simply to reform it. Abolish it. A naturalized member of Congress entered this country legally, obtained citizenship, reached one of the most powerful positions in the federal government, and then proposed eliminating the agency charged with removing people who violate our immigration laws.
Jesús “Chuy” García was born in Mexico. He has said: “I will not stop fighting until every undocumented person has a path to citizenship.” Every undocumented person. Not only children brought here through no choice of their own. Not only people who have lived here peacefully for decades. Not only carefully defined exceptions. Every undocumented person.
Robert Garcia was born in Peru and entered the United States with his family on visitor visas that were later overstayed. He has made creating pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants a central part of his work in Congress. Adriano Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic and has publicly described himself as someone who was once undocumented. He has built much of his political career around expanding protections and legal status for people who entered or remained in this country illegally.
Raja Krishnamoorthi was born in India. He has argued that America “can’t function without immigrants” and strongly supports bringing more foreign workers into the country through programs such as H-1B.
Ted Lieu was born in Taiwan. He has advocated providing Taiwan with the weapons it needs for its defense. He said in June: “I believe we need to make available every weapon that Taiwan needs in its defense as quickly as it becomes possible.”
Defending Taiwan against communist China may very well serve America’s national-security interests. I support Taiwan against the Chinese Communist Party. That is not the point. The point is that members of Congress make decisions involving billions of American tax dollars, American weapons, American intelligence, and possibly American lives. When the person making those decisions was born in the country receiving that support, Americans are allowed to ask whether those ties matter. They should not be called racist for asking.
But this standard cannot suddenly disappear when the naturalized politician is a Republican. Carlos Gimenez was born in Cuba. Young Kim was born in South Korea. Victoria Spartz was born in Ukraine. Juan Ciscomani was born in Mexico. Casey Askar was born in Iraq.
Not every naturalized member of Congress has spoken the way Ilhan Omar has. Some have records that many conservatives strongly support. Carlos Gimenez has fought the Cuban dictatorship and supported stronger sanctions against the regime. As a Cuban-American, I understand exactly why. Victoria Spartz voted against a $61 billion Ukraine aid package and argued that America’s border should come before another foreign “blank check,” even though she was born and raised in Ukraine. Juan Ciscomani has supported securing the southern border, fighting fentanyl trafficking, and requiring Mexico to cooperate with the United States.
That still does not change the constitutional question. A constitutional qualification cannot depend on whether we personally like someone’s politics. It cannot change based on whether the candidate is a communist sympathizer, a conservative businessman, a military veteran, or someone who escaped the same dictatorship my family escaped. Either natural-born citizenship is the standard or it is not.
That brings this directly home to Collier County. Republicans just nominated Casey Askar for Congress in Florida’s new District 22. He was born in Iraq and came to the United States as a child. He built successful businesses, raised a family, served in the United States Marine Corps, spent millions of his own money on this race, and won the Republican primary. Those accomplishments are part of his story. They do not change the fact that he was not an American citizen at birth.
I am not going to condemn Ilhan Omar as foreign-born and then decide citizenship at birth no longer matters because Casey Askar has an R next to his name. I am not going to demand one standard from Democrats and another from Republicans. That is not principle. That is partisan convenience. America First cannot mean America First only when the rule hurts the other side.
This is not an attack on legal immigration. My own family’s story is rooted in legal immigration, but I am not going to claim that every Cuban who came here automatically put America first. Some did. Some did not. Some fled communism and spent the rest of their lives defending the freedom they found here. Others brought their politics, loyalties, and old-country interests with them. Cubans are not exempt from the standard simply because I am Cuban-American.
Legal immigrants have built businesses, raised families, served in our military, defended this country, and made enormous contributions to American life. But being welcomed into America does not create an automatic right to hold every position of federal power. We already accept that principle. A naturalized citizen cannot become President. That does not make the person less human, less successful, or less deserving of respect. It simply means the Constitution reserves one specific office for natural-born citizens.
Nancy Mace is asking why that protection should end at the Oval Office. Why can someone be constitutionally barred from serving as President but still vote on war, national security, border enforcement, classified intelligence, federal judges, impeachment, and trillions of dollars in spending? Why can that person become a federal judge, serve for life, and decide whether American laws survive? Why can that person hold a Senate-confirmed position with enormous power over American foreign policy?
Those are legitimate questions. Screaming “xenophobia” is not an answer.
This amendment does not require us to prove that every naturalized citizen is disloyal. It establishes a clear qualification before the question ever arises. That is what constitutional qualifications do. We do not investigate whether a 25-year-old might be mature enough to serve in the Senate. The Constitution says a senator must be at least 30. We do not decide whether someone with six years of citizenship is sufficiently patriotic to serve in the House. The Constitution requires seven years. We do not make case-by-case exceptions for a popular naturalized citizen who wants to become President. The Constitution requires a natural-born citizen.
Clear rule. Same standard. Everyone knows it in advance.
If the American people decide that the individuals writing and enforcing federal law should be citizens from birth, that rule must apply equally. Apply it to Ilhan Omar. Apply it to Pramila Jayapal. Apply it to Shri Thanedar. Apply it to every naturalized Democrat. Apply it to every naturalized Republican. Apply it to Casey Askar.
No partisan loopholes. No exceptions because we like the candidate. No dropping the standard when it applies to someone in our own party.
Support Nancy Mace’s amendment. Demand the same standard from our own party that we demand from Democrats.
One allegiance. One country. America First.
SIGN THE PETITION:
https://t.co/iLLBIVUiU6
Sources:
Nancy Mace’s official announcement:
https://t.co/msue0BRWK5
Ilhan Omar’s speech and competing translations:
https://t.co/bb7W6wkdYY
Pramila Jayapal’s official statement following her trip to Cuba:
https://t.co/MVPoLdKG5a
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@BenarrochYvette Rep. Bennarroch, it’s your endorsed candidate who is allegedly the mastermind behind these hit jobs. What a severe lack of judgment in endorsing someone like this. The smart move would have been to remain neutral, as many of your peers did.
There's courts who can handle defamation and slander!
VOTERS will reject sleazy political games and VOTE @MCarbonaraFL for FL-22! Michael is the ONLY choice!
🚨 DIRTY TRICKS. ELECTION DAY HIT JOB.
Florida media just turned an unverified private tip into a screaming “FBI investigation” headline with zero evidence, no case number, and no statement from the Bureau.
Michael Carbonara just dropped the official response:
Full denial.
Zero involvement.
Retraction demanded.
Legal consequences incoming.
This is how the corrupted press operates when they can’t beat you on the issues.
Floridians aren’t falling for it!
🚨 WARNING: Opponents of @MCarbonaraFL are running the EXACT same fake “he dropped out” text scam that was used against Byron Donalds years ago.
He’s not dropping out.
He’s not quitting.
He’s out talking to voters RIGHT NOW.
If you get a text claiming he’s out… DELETE IT.
FL-22: Get to the polls and VOTE CARBONARA today.
My official statement regarding defamation / slander.
This is another dirty trick, and Florida press has been completely corrupted this election cycle.
This is unacceptable and there will be real legal consequences.
@megforflorida@JavManjarres@Floridianpress This is insane slander and defamation. What investigation? Anyone can file a fake report.
If anyone should be filing complaints it’s me. This is a joke.