Anna Paulina Luna won a Florida House seat, marking her path from Instagram star to Trump-backing lawmaker with a party in St. Petersburg.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It was still early, just 26 minutes after polls closed, when a young campaign staffer backstage ducked through the curtains and ran into the crowd, pumping his fist, a thumbs-up in the air. He threw back his can of watermelon-flavored Celsius energy drink. “She’s pulling ahead,” he said. “Excuse my French: We effin’ did it.”A man in the ballroom was texting Charlie Kirk, the 29-year-old“It’s done,” the staffer said. “Dude, she just won.”At 7:44 p.m.
in four perfect rows. Upstairs, a different kind of Republican was on the cusp of becoming a congresswoman-elect in Florida’s 13th, a newly redrawn congressional district that leaves out more liberal parts of St. Petersburg and once belonged to Democrat Charlie Crist. They raised their phones. A man held up his iPad to live-stream the scene. A woman held up her phone to live-stream the man with the iPad.
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