Main Candidates in August 28th Primary Election in Florida & Alachua County

If you're planning to vote in the upcoming primary election on August 28th (early voting August 18-25), you might want to know some of the candidates running in the various races here in Alachua County, Florida, and the United States Congress.  Since it's a primary election...other than judge and school board seats...registered Republicans and Democrats have been receiving their own different sample ballots.  And although there are lots of choices in the respective races (especially for state governor in both parties), it's generally acknowledged that there is a small number of leading contenders, which I'll discuss here...

For Florida governor, which Republican Rick Scott is vacating after eight years because of term limits, the Republican primary leader...according to polling...is U.S. Representative Ron DeSantis (endorsed by Trump), followed by Adam Putnam, currently our Commissioner of Agriculture.  These two have been fighting a brutal mail campaign with each accusing the other of selling out conservatism.  On the Democratic side, Gwen Graham, daughter of former Florida governor and senator Bob Graham, is ahead of businessman Jeff Greene.  Greene is coming out very strongly against Trump, especially regarding gun control, while Graham is touting her stances for education and the environment.  For the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Bill Nelson, the incumbent is running unopposed...his Republican opponent in November will almost certainly be Governor Scott, who has token opposition in this primary.  For the U.S. House of Representatives District 3 seat, comprising Alachua County (among other areas), Republican Tea Party incumbent Ted Yoho is opposed by Judson Sapp, who claims to be more pro-Trump than Yoho. With the Democrats, Yvonne Hayes Hinson, Tom Wells, and Dushyant Jethagir Gosal are on the ballot...I don't know who the favorite is here, but Hinson seems to be winning with the most campaign signs so far.  There are primary elections in each party for the state's Attorney General and Agriculture Commissioner seats.  The State Senate District 8 seat, currently held by Republican Keith Perry who has no party opposition, on the Democratic side has Kayser Enneking facing off against Olysha Magruder...whoever they are.  There are also State Representative primary elections for each party: District 10 for the Republicans and District 21 for the Democrats (at least as far as my own precinct is concerned). For the Alachua County Commission District 2, Randy Wells is running against Marihelen Wheeler in the Democratic Primary election...

There are two nonpartisan judicial races, one for the 8th Judicial Circuit, Group 8 and the other for County Judge, Group 2.  Also, three school board races are on all ballots.  District 1 has incumbent April Griffin vs. Tina Certain, District 3 has incumbent Gunnar Paulson against Judy McNeil and April Tisher, and District 5 has incumbent Rob Hyatt going against Paul Wolfe.  I probably should have been paying more attention here, but with the judges how am I supposed to know who to vote for?

It will be interesting to see what the voter turnout is for this primary election.  A high turnout would be encouraging, but I'll believe it when I see it...