2024 United States Senate election in Florida

The 2024 United States Senate election in Florida will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Florida. Incumbent one-term Republican Senator Rick Scott was elected with 50.05% of the vote in 2018. He is running for re-election to a second term in office.

Primary elections will take place on August 20, 2024.

Background
Long one of the core swing states, Florida has trended towards Republicans in recent years and is now considered to be a moderately red state at the federal level, with Donald Trump carrying Florida by about three and a half percentage points in the 2020 presidential election.

As a result of that trend, Republicans have seen much more success in the state in recent years. That was most prevalent when the Florida GOP saw landslide victories in the 2022 gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections. As of 2024, Republicans control both of Florida's U.S. Senate seats, all statewide offices, supermajorities in both houses of the Florida Legislature, and a large majority in its U.S. House congressional delegation.

Scott was first elected in 2018 by 0.1 points, defeating then-incumbent Bill Nelson. With the benefit of incumbency and the state's rightward trend, most political pundits consider the race to be favoring Scott to win re-election.

Declared

 * John Columbus, actor
 * Keith Gross, former assistant state attorney for Florida's 18th circuit court
 * Rick Scott, incumbent U.S. senator (2019–present)

Declined

 * Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida (2019–present) and former U.S. Representative from FL's 6th congressional district (2013–2018) (ran for president)
 * Byron Donalds, U.S. representative from FL's 19th congressional district (2021–present) (running for re-election)
 * Matt Gaetz, U.S. representative from FL's 1st congressional district (2017–present) (running for re-election)

Declared

 * Stanley Campbell, IT company CEO and brother of rapper Uncle Luke
 * Rod Joseph, consultant and Purple Heart recipient
 * Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, former U.S. representative from FL's 26th congressional district (2019–2021)
 * Brian Rush, former state representative (1987–1995) and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2022

Withdrew

 * Phil Ehr, nonprofit executive, nominee for FL's 1st congressional district in 2020 and candidate in 2018 (running for U.S. House, endorsed Mucarsel-Powell)
 * Alan Grayson, former U.S. representative from FL's 9th congressional district (2009–2011, 2013–2017) and perennial candidate (running for state senate)

Declined

 * Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, U.S. representative from FL's 20th congressional district (2022–present) (running for re-election)
 * Fentrice Driskell, Minority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives (2022–present) from the 67th district (2018–present)
 * Anna Eskamani, state representative (2018–present) (running for re-election)
 * Lois Frankel, U.S. representative from FL's 22nd congressional district (2013–present) (running for re-election, endorsed Mucarsel-Powell)
 * Shevrin Jones, state senator from the 35th district (2021–present) (endorsed Mucarsel-Powel)
 * Debbie Wasserman Schultz, U.S. representative from FL's 25th congressional district (2004–present) (endorsed Mucarsel-Powell)
 * Frederica Wilson, U.S. representative from FL's 24th congressional district (2011–present)

Declared

 * Feena Bonoan (Libertarian), artist and nominee for U.S. Senate in Hawaii in 2022
 * Ben Everidge (Independent), fundraising consultant and former legislative consultant to U.S. Senators Lawton Chiles and Ben Nelson
 * Howard Knepper (write-in), real estate developer and perennial candidate
 * Tuan Nguyen (Independent), system engineer and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2022

Polling
Rick Scott vs. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell

Rick Scott vs. Phil Ehr