Winter Garden, FL (VoxPopuli)

DJ Culberson of Winter Garden holds signs at Daniels Road and Colonial Drive on Election Day. While Vice President Kamala Harris didn't take the White House, Nicole Wilson won her hard-fought race to keep her D1 seat on the Orange County Commission.

Republicans took the White House and the Senate, and several ballot measures with clear majorities did not reach Florida's 60 percent threshold to pass. But in Orange County, progressive women candidates had a very good Tuesday .

In a shake up in the Ninth Circuit Court's Group 15, Pine Hills attorney and mom Alicia Peyton, 43, unseated incumbent Judge Jeff Ashton, winning the runoff with more than 62 percent of the vote.

Ashton had been elected to the bench in 2018 after a single term as state attorney and a 3

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