Florida is finally poised to have a new Lieutenant Governor this week, filling a position that has been vacant for most of the year after Jeanette M. Núñez resigned to become President of Florida International University.

Multiple sources report (with NBC’s Matt Dixon breaking the news) that state Sen. Jay Collins will be Gov. Ron DeSantis’ selection, ending the suspense for the Tampa Republican and former Green Beret.

Appropriately, Tuesday’s press conference is expected to be held at the Tampa Green Beret Association.

Collins, a native of Montana, was first elected to the Senate in 2022, an election in which he defeated Democratic state Sen. Janet Cruz . After briefly running for Congress after redistricting, he ended up back in the Senate race, bolstered by a fiel

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