Things to know about Byron Donalds, Trump's pick to be Florida's next governor

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : His wife, Erika Donalds, won a seat on the local school board in 2014 and founded the Optima Foundation in 2017 to support creating new schools and supporting charter schools.
52% : Throughout the campaign, he acted as a Trump surrogate and traveled the country to support the president -- even defying his own state's governor, DeSantis, by endorsing Trump over him in the 2024 election.
44% : Although he called DeSantis the "best governor in the country," he said Trump is "the guy that can get the job done on Day One."
42% : In 2016, he was elected into the Florida House, where he championed school choice and criminal justice reform.
29% : " The relationship was further strained when Donalds joined other Florida Republicans in endorsing Trump for president in April 2023, opposing the governor's own presidential aspirations.

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