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2026 candidates we're tracking in FL-19
Victor Arias
Top priorities
- Lower grocery prices and create affordable housing
- Pass infrastructure funding for roads, bridges and broadband
- Fund Everglades restoration and combat red tide
Per the campaign site.
About Victor Arias
Owner and managing attorney of the Arias Law Firm since 1992, representing working families in personal injury and workers' compensation cases across Southwest Florida, per local election reporting by Sparker's Soapbox; he ran for Lee County Superintendent of Schools in 2024.
Jim Schwartzel
Top priorities
- Protecting Southwest Florida's water quality
- Securing the border
- Term limits
Per the campaign site.
About Jim Schwartzel
President of Fort Myers-based Sun Broadcasting and Gulfshore Life Media, operator of conservative talk station 92.5 FOX News and publisher of Gulfshore Life magazine, per his campaign site; a lifelong Southwest Florida resident, he led the June Victory Insights poll of the field at 13 percent, per WGCU.
Seth Haskin
Top priorities
- Constitutional governance, questioning federal authority before supporting new legislation
- Rule of law, enforcing statutes with integrity and protecting citizen rights
- Transparency, simplifying laws and government openness
Per the campaign site.
About Seth Haskin
Haskin holds a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and grew up in a lower-middle-class household of seven, where his family at times relied on food stamps; he has also conducted independent study of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers, per the campaign site.
About this race
Florida's 19th Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Florida primary is Tuesday, August 18, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.