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Fort Lauderdale, Florida (AP) — Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins announced Monday that he’s running for governor in 2026, hoping to take over for term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The candidacy places Collins in a Republican primary race against U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump. DeSantis tapped Collins to be his lieutenant governor last August, but the current governor has not made any endorsement in this year’s gubernatorial race.

“I’m running for Governor because leadership is forged under pressure, not in soundbites,” Collins said in a post on X. “I served over 23 years in the United States military, mainly as a Green Beret, where accountability is real, decisions have consequences, and service comes before self. That experience shaped how I lead and why I believe public office is a public trust.”

Born in Montana, Collins has talked openly about personal challenges he has overcome, including experiencing homelessness while in high school. He went on to join the Army Special Forces and ultimately lost a leg, but continued to serve five more years as a Green Beret using a prosthetic leg postamputation, according to a campaign biography.

In recent years, Collins has served as the chief operating officer of Operation BBQ Relief, which deploys cooks and mobile kitchens to deliver hot meals in the aftermath of natural disasters. Last June, Collins also flew to Israel to help support state-funded flights to evacuate Americans as Israel and Iran traded missile strikes.

In Florida, the lieutenant governor position is largely ceremonial with few official responsibilities, apart from taking over if the governor cannot serve. Collins was first elected to Florida’s Republican-dominated state Senate in 2022 and has been seen as one of DeSantis’ key allies in the Legislature.

During a news conference Monday, DeSantis called Collins a “good guy” but added that he hadn’t decided whether he would make any endorsement.

“If I get involved in the primary, you’ll know it,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis was elected governor in 2018 and reelected in 2022. Under Florida law, a governor can only serve two consecutive four-year terms.

Other candidates in the Republican primary are Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett, Azoria CEO James Fishback, former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner and activist Bobby Williams.

Democratic candidates are Orlando Mayor Jerry Demings and former Republican U.S. Rep. David Jolly.

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By Katelyn Polantz, Kristen Holmes, CNN

(CNN) — The top career prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia office has been fired, according to three people familiar with the development Monday.

It is the latest dramatic change to the powerful prosecutors’ office that previously brought cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The prosecutor, Robert McBride, was in the US Attorney’s Office for only a handful of weeks, working as No. 2 to Lindsey Halligan, who is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the office as US Attorney but whose authority has been undercut in court.

McBride’s removal, supported by Justice Department leadership in Washington, leaves the office without a top prosecutor to manage the office and oversee investigations and cases, including ones Halligan has sought.

Halligan was sent by Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump administration to lead the office in late September, with McBride moving into the first assistant job shortly thereafter.

McBride had taken on some top responsibilities in the office. That included meeting with judges in the Eastern District of Virginia in recent weeks, which is typical for US Attorneys to do.

CNN is attempting to reach McBride for comment.

The US Attorney’s Office in Alexandria has been in turmoil for months, since Trump’s first choice to lead it was forced out, and other experienced prosecutors were also removed.

Since then, Halligan’s indictments of Comey and James have caused significant fallout. Judges have repeatedly told Halligan she no longer has authority to lead the office. Legal questions of who has the leadership authority among EDVA prosecutors prompted the department to sign court filings in recent weeks with both Halligan’s and McBride’s names, as well as the name of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

A judge in Washington, DC, largely blocked the office from attempting to revive the case against Comey. And grand juries in the district more than once have refused to re-indict James on accusations of mortgage fraud.

Questions still linger inside the US Attorney’s Office on whether McBride was aligned with Halligan and others in the Department about what to do next with the Comey and James cases, people familiar with McBride’s departure say. Other line prosecutors on the heavily politicized cases have left the office.

At the same time, political appointees in the Trump administration were unhappy with McBride recently, according to a personal familiar with the situation. Some were unhappy he didn’t have regular meetings with other law enforcement entity and hadn’t push forward as many immigration-related cases as others in the department wanted.

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