FL-05: Matt Boyle, who is a senior writer for the white supremacist site Breitbart, says he's considering challenging Rep. John Rutherford in the GOP primary. Rutherford infuriated hardliners last month when he repeatedly voted against making Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan speaker, and Duval County School Board member April Carney quickly declared that she wasn't ruling out waging her own intraparty bid against the congressman.
Semafor reports that Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, and other Trump apparatchiks are encouraging Boyle to run, with Bannon claiming, "Boyle has been with President Trump from the early days and gets the America First Movement like few others." Boyle, for his part, told Gorka's podcast audience, "It’s a huge decision. I don’t know if I would do that next year." Trump carried this seat, which is based in Jacksonville and its southeastern suburbs, 57-41.