A.G. Gancarski
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has the backing of the vast majority of Florida Sheriffs.
Donald Trump now has the endorsement of 55 of Florida’s 67 county Sheriffs, as they felt emboldened to endorse in the wake of Ron DeSantis leaving the presidential race. DeSantis had touted the endorsements of 60 Sheriffs when he was still a candidate last year.
“As Sheriffs, we understand that government’s primary responsibility is to protect its citizens, and we need a President in the White House who will stand with us as we protect our citizens, their freedoms and our communities,” said Brevard Sheriff Wayne Ivey.
“President Trump has a proven track record of protecting our great nation,” Ivey continued. “They say that past performance predicts future performance, and as President, Donald Trump exceeded at every level. He secured our borders, stood strong with our law enforcement officers, targeted drug traffickers and fentanyl dealers, fought to protect our Constitutional Rights, and once again, made our military the most revered in the world!!”
Trump is facing off against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire Presidential Primary on Tuesday.
“This group of Florida Sheriffs are proudly endorsing Donald Trump for President of the United States because we need him in the White House protecting our country and standing with us, as we protect you and our communities!” Ivey concluded.
Here is a complete list of the Sheriffs endorsing Trump:
— Baker Sheriff Scotty Rhoden
— Bay Sheriff Tommy Ford
— Bradford Sheriff George Paul “Gordon” Smith
— Brevard Sheriff Wayne Ivey
— Calhoun Sheriff Glenn Kimbrel
— Citrus Sheriff Mike Prendergast
— Clay Sheriff Michelle Cook
— Collier Sheriff Kevin J. Rambosk
— Columbia Sheriff Mark Hunter
— DeSoto Sheriff James F. Potter
— Dixie Sheriff Darby Butler
— Duval Sheriff T.K. Waters
— Escambia Sheriff Chip Simmons
— Flagler Sheriff Rick Staly
— Franklin Sheriff A.J. “Tony” Smith
— Gilchrist Sheriff Bobby Schultz
— Glades Sheriff David Hardin
— Gulf Sheriff Mike Harrison
— Hamilton Sheriff J. Harrell Reid
— Hardee Sheriff Vent Crawford
— Hendry Sheriff Stephen H. “Steve” Whidden
— Hernando Sheriff Al Nienhuis
— Highlands Sheriff Paul Blackman
— Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister
— Holmes Sheriff John Tate
— Indian River Sheriff Eric Flowers
— Jackson Sheriff Donald L. Edenfield
— Jefferson Sheriff Alfred Kenneth “Mac” McNeill Jr.
— Lafayette Sheriff Brian N. Lamb
— Lake Sheriff Peyton C. Grinnell
— Lee Sheriff Carmine Marceno
— Levy Sheriff Robert “Bobby” McCallum
— Liberty Sheriff Buddy Money
— Madison Sheriff David Harper
— Manatee Sheriff Charles R. Wells
— Marion Sheriff Billy Woods
— Martin Sheriff William Snyder
— Monroe Sheriff Rick Ramsay
— Nassau Sheriff Bill Leeper
— Okaloosa Sheriff Eric Aden
— Okeechobee Sheriff Noel E. Stephen
— Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco
— Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri
— Putnam Sheriff Homer “Gator” DeLoach III
— Santa Rosa Sheriff Robert Johnson
— Sarasota Sheriff Kurt A. Hoffman
— St. Johns Sheriff Robert A. Hardwick
— St. Lucie Sheriff Keith Pearson
— Sumter Sheriff William O. “Bill” Farmer
— Suwannee Sheriff Sam St. John
— Taylor Sheriff Wayne Padgett
— Union Sheriff Brad Whitehead
— Wakulla Sheriff Jared Miller
— Walton Sheriff Michael A. Adkinson Jr.
— Washington Sheriff Kevin Crews
56 comments
Fred Black
January 23, 2024 at 1:35 pm
Law and lemmings.
Earl Pitts "Sage Political Expert Emeritas" American
January 23, 2024 at 6:27 pm
Good evening Florida,
67 Counties in FL
-55 For Trump
= y’all Demoncrats gonna take a much needed “Sage Butt Kicking” in Florida and throughout The USA.
The numbers dont lie.
Thank you America,
Earl Pitts American
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Elmo
January 23, 2024 at 6:45 pm
Your pathetic little boy Ronnie got his ass handed to him. Hahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahhahahaha. Ha!
Earl Pitts "Sage Political Expert Emeritas" American
January 24, 2024 at 7:02 am
CHASTIZED
Mark
January 24, 2024 at 9:06 am
You took off your DeathSantis kneepads, Earl? That was a quick wardrobe change. I never imagined you as a sage thespian.
Thanos the MAGA Destroyer
January 24, 2024 at 2:31 pm
55 Sheriff’s endorse a guy that’s been found guilty of rape, and has 91 indictments. y’all maga are gonna take a much needed spanking across Florida and across the country.
PeterH
January 23, 2024 at 1:41 pm
Obviously Florida Sheriffs have an affinity for more guns on the street and to support criminals for the highest office in the land!
Sad! But Florida is ripe to attract those looking for a sunny place for shady people!
Earl Pitts "Sage Political Expert Emeritas" American
January 24, 2024 at 7:03 am
CHASTIZED
Dont Say FLA
January 23, 2024 at 1:41 pm
If/when Trump wants to break TF outta the law in your jurisdiction, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when Trump come for you?
Earl Pitts "Sage Political Expert Emeritas" American
January 24, 2024 at 7:04 am
❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
KathrynA
January 23, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Rather scary for a wannabee dictator to have law enforcement and all their forces and strength behind him.
Earl Pitts "Sage Political Expert Emeritas" American
January 24, 2024 at 7:04 am
CHASTIZED
Law Lib
January 23, 2024 at 3:08 pm
Law and order, huh? These sheriff’s are the ultimate oxymorons!
Sheriff Buford Pusser
January 23, 2024 at 8:11 pm
Let me guess. You are one of those people that resist arrest, run from the cops, and then cry foul, racism, or insensitivity when caught. I see you all the time on the show “Cops”.
Mark
January 24, 2024 at 9:09 am
Bufford Pusser fought corruption. Mango Mussolini considers it a business model.
Earl Pitts "Sage Political Expert Emeritas" American
January 24, 2024 at 7:04 am
CHASTIZED
Tom
January 23, 2024 at 3:46 pm
I used to think our local sheriff was a pretty decent guy. Seeing his name on this list disgusts me. He’s paid by the county to uphold the law not publically throw his support behind a convicted rapist. He can do what he likes as a private citizen but this is just wrong.
MH/Duuuval
January 23, 2024 at 5:17 pm
It’s like DJT said years ago: He could walk down 5th Avenue and shot someone and no one would lift a finger.
Meanwhile, whatsamatter with the 12 apostles of someone else? Holding out for Dee? (Might happen, if DJT continues to mistake Nancy for Nikki, or vice versa.)
Impeach Biden
January 23, 2024 at 7:30 pm
But it would be okay with you if your sheriff endorsed a senile old man Demo that has blown up the Southern Border, brought us record breaking inflation, sits as CIC while Iran backed terrorists launch over one hundred attacks on US installations, and on and on.
MH/Duuuval
January 23, 2024 at 8:35 pm
Not gonna happen here where the current officeholder is in bed with the MAGAmites. (High MAGA office requires the individual have no pride, and our no-count sheriff showed that he had none during his election campaign.)
MH/Duuuval
January 23, 2024 at 8:43 pm
BTW: Your running commentary on Biden’s mental health no longer works as Trump went on at some length talking about Nancy Pelosi who he kept calling Nikki Haley. Biden is physically slowing down, but Trump is mentally losing it, and the more he gets out of his beachfront castle that will become increasingly apparent.
JD
January 23, 2024 at 8:46 pm
I was thinking just that. Trump is sounding senile more and more each day.
That or batsh!t, sucking on hatter mercury fumes, Jim Jones crazy.
I cannot believe were having the election of old men.
Nobody’s broached this much – what happens if there a “black swan” event on either one of them? Both before or after the election? Oh snap.
Impeach Biden
January 23, 2024 at 8:55 pm
Put Biden and Trump on stage with no cue cards, teleprompters, and scripted questions from the Demo friendly media. Watch “ice cream” man get his azz handed to him. Biden is so far gone mentally it is scary and you ignore that fact.
JD
January 23, 2024 at 9:08 pm
Impeach,
I think you might be wrong and I think we might get our wish come debate time later this year.
Unless of course Trump won’t debate like most other times. That’s kind of telling.
JD
January 24, 2024 at 7:15 am
We all may get our wish for a Biden Trump debate come this election season.
That is if Trump will actually show up. Him not for the last few Republican debates is telling – he cannot ramble like EarL for 90 minutes to applause, but not actually say anything. Why? He’d get his azz handed to him by Biden.
MH/Duuuval
January 24, 2024 at 9:36 am
If DJT and Biden should end up debating, Biden has a record of protecting human rights (especially a woman’s right to choose) whereas DJT can brag about “owning” libs. Stark choice that should make it easy for voters to choose.
MH/Duuuval
January 25, 2024 at 9:34 am
Physically, DJT is a wreck — the only exercise he gets is the perp walk.
Biden can and does still ride a bike — though it may be time for him to switch to the senior version, a trike.
Tom
January 24, 2024 at 7:49 am
No. It would not be okay with me if my sheriff, in his official capacity as someone of authority, endorsed anyone … period. If the public is paying you, you have a responsibility to remain above the fray and concern yourself with law & order – equal justice for all etc. Nobody should give a flying eff what your political preferences are. But to support a convicted rapist, really is a bridge too far.
MH/Duuuval
January 24, 2024 at 8:43 pm
Agreed, and this is a primary downside to elected sheriffs and police chiefs who are partisan. They are little kings in their own bailiwicks — with no real checks and balances except the elections every four years.
Dont Say FLA
January 25, 2024 at 1:20 pm
But IBS, Trump built that wall and made Mexico pay for it.
Trump said so, therefore it’s the Truth!
So how is the Southern border a mess of any kind when there’s a big beautiful wall that Mexico paid for?
No comprendo senor!
Earl Pitts "Sage Political Expert Emeritas" American
January 24, 2024 at 7:05 am
CHASTIZED
Elmo
January 23, 2024 at 5:28 pm
CREEPY
Earl Pitts "Sage Political Expert Emeritas" American
January 24, 2024 at 7:05 am
CHASTIZED
Ocean Joe
January 23, 2024 at 6:07 pm
They are lining up behind Trump to put the cuffs on.
ScienceBLVR
January 23, 2024 at 6:16 pm
If Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is running again, he wont be getting my vote. Lost respect for him when he supported Stand your ground BS over the handicapped parking murder of the guy in front of his family. Guess the jury agreed with me on that one..
Andy
January 23, 2024 at 6:26 pm
I can’t believe that law enforcement would get behind a guy who is responsible for the deaths of their fellow brothers in blue on January 6th.. makes me sick to say the least!
Never mind all of those who were injured and traumatized…
MH/Duuuval
January 23, 2024 at 8:40 pm
We had a JSO officer whose house exterior displayed every imaginable MAGA sign or pennant UNTIL Jan. 6. Then, they all came down within 24 hours — and his house is on stilts, so that meant getting on his ladder. Give him credit for getting the meaning of J6.
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Sally B
January 24, 2024 at 2:15 am
I did not see America’s Sheriff — Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County — on the list. Sheriff Grady Judd was one of 62 Florida sheriffs to endorse Governor Ron DeSantis for President, not the 55 Florida sheriffs who now have endorsed former President Trump for President. ???
Mark
January 24, 2024 at 9:05 am
Some poor soul walked between Grady and a TV camera so the SWAT team was called. The situation is taking up his grandstanding time.
MH/Duuuval
January 24, 2024 at 9:39 am
Grady still feeling the glow from a recent embrace by Dee who mentioned Judd as vice-presidential timber (but not for Dee, sorry, since they are both from Florida.)
Holster Sniffers
January 24, 2024 at 7:33 am
Looky there it’s Trump and his homer ottick, holster sniffing human centipede. How apropos.
Buford T Justice. Of Texas
January 24, 2024 at 7:36 am
I also endorse Trump, and for exact same reasons as all these Florida sheriffs:
1- I have an idiot son who I’m ashamed of
2- I hate [the you know who’s]
Sheriff Branford
January 24, 2024 at 7:38 am
I am Sheriff Branford. I do not endorse human pig Donald J Trump for anything other than being the next occupant of the bed bug cell in Atlanta Fulton County Jail. Those bed bugs are hungry and he would provide quite the meal.
Sally B
January 24, 2024 at 10:51 pm
So much for a clean prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia, in light of recent developments. In short, it could end up delaying a final disposition of the case to well after the general election. Good grief! What a mess!
MH/Duuuval
January 25, 2024 at 9:37 am
DJT always tries to deflect. The facts are still the same: DJT leaned on the GA vote supervisor to “find” another 11,000 votes. It is too bad that Ms. Fani messed up socially.
Dont Say FLA
January 25, 2024 at 1:23 pm
Perhaps we defer judgment on the prosecution team until we can verify if one whit of the unsubstantiated allegation is even partially true,.
Chances are very high it’s just Trump’s dirty tricks guy Roger Stone pulling Marcia’s strings.
That said, an office romance wouldn’t mean Trump didn’t do what he did. At worst a different prosecutor would take over, but the case ain’t gonna vanish, not by a long shot.
Thomas Kaspar
January 25, 2024 at 2:52 pm
55 Florida Sheriffs support a rapist.
So much for “law & order” I guess.
Terry
January 25, 2024 at 6:50 pm
How ironic. Law enforcement “leadership” supporting a J6 criminal, sex offender, lying lying lying lying loser. No respect for these so called Sheriffs.
Ed Slavin
January 26, 2024 at 2:20 pm
So deeply disappointing, controversial St. Johns County Sheriff ROBERT HARDWICK is among the 55 deluded Dull Republican Sheriffs have endorsed an incorrgibly crass, crude, corrupt devious dingbat, a sexist, racist, misogynist, handsy, despicable, annoying, cloying, threatening, riot-inciting four-time indicted, twice impeached insurrectionist for President?
A jury found DONALD JOHN TRUMP liable for sexual assault
The feculent Florida Sheriff’s Association claims it does not endorse political candidates due to its non-profit status. So who organized these 55 bullies, toadies and satraps to use their official titles to endorse such a nasty man? Is there a name for this rump group of TRUMP-supporting Sheriffs? If it needs a name, may I suggest “Confederacy of Dunces?
Who would ask a Southern sheriff for instructions about whom they should vote for President? How arrogant, overbearing and insulting, supine, sibilant shallow, superficial, Florida Sheriffs. Stay in your lane, you louche lugubrious goobers. The whole world is watching you. We the People reject your works and pomps, and the same goes triple for your Presidential candidate, DONALD JOHN TRUMP.
Jacob Gaskins
January 27, 2024 at 2:31 pm
They could choose to support literally anybody else, but they all line up behind a rapist. These Florida Sherrifs have lost all credibility as far as I’m concerned.
My Take
January 27, 2024 at 10:00 pm
The brotherhood of thuggery.
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That was fast
January 28, 2024 at 9:54 am
Usually it takes shooting an unarmed man 30 times in the back with his hands up to get this many Sheriffs to love you.
Dont Say FLA
January 29, 2024 at 7:41 am
30 men shot in the back is worth the promise of 30 million to be shot in the back, it seems.
Ron Forrest Ron
January 29, 2024 at 9:00 am
55 holster sniffers lined up behind strong aroma of leather before realizing that smell emanated from Trump’s skin.
Dancing Outlaw
January 31, 2024 at 7:27 am
What is the racial breakdown of this group of 55 sheriffs relative to all Florida sheriffs? Gee I wonder
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