Democrat Andrew Gillum has opened up a big lead in the Florida governor race

Andrew Gillum.
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Andrew Gillum is on track to become Florida's next governor.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows that the Tallahassee mayor, who unexpectedly won the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary last month, is 9 points ahead of Republican challenger Rep. Ron DeSantis. Support for the candidates is pretty staunchly divided along party lines, but independents are strongly in Gillum's favor, 56 percent to DeSantis' 40 percent.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.