Byron Donalds

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Byron Donalds
Rep. Byron Donalds - 117th Congress (cropped).jpg
Official portrait, 2021
Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives
from Florida's 19th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2021
Children3
Education Florida A&M University
Florida State University (BS)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • financier
  • credit analyst
Website House website
Byron Donalds's voice
Byron Donalds explains his opposition to the Restaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Act of 2021
Recorded April 7, 2022

Byron Lowell Donalds (born October 28, 1978) [2] is an American politician and financial analyst who has served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 19th congressional district since 2021, as a member of the Republican Party. His district includes much of Southwest Florida. [3] [4]

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Born and raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Donalds attended Florida A&M University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and marketing from Florida State University in 2002. Before entering politics, Donalds worked in the finance, insurance, and banking industries. [2] Placed in In the conservative wing of the Republican Party, [5] [6] [7] Donalds was a member of the Tea Party movement and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012. He represented the 80th district in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016 to 2020. [8] [9] [10]

Donalds was elected to Congress in 2020, defeating Democratic nominee Cindy Banyai. In the January 2023 Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives election, he was nominated for the speakership in the fourth through 11th rounds of voting. [11] Several months later, Donalds was a candidate in the third nomination for the October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election. [12]

In January 2021, Donalds voted to object to the certification of electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania in the 2020 presidential election. [13] Donalds said that he did not "personally" believe that President Joe Biden was a "legitimate" president of the United States, [14] but that Biden was nevertheless the president. [15]

Early life and education

Donalds was born and raised in the Crown Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. [16] [17] One of three children, he was raised by his single mother. [16] In 1996, Donalds graduated from Nazareth Regional High School in East Flatbush. [18] Donalds is of Jamaican and Panamanian heritage. [19] [20]

In 1997, Donalds was charged with marijuana possession, but the charges were dropped as part of a pre-trial diversion program, and he was fined $150 (equivalent to $280in 2023). [21] [22] In 2000, he pleaded no contest to a felony theft charge for allegedly attempting to defraud a bank (by depositing a bad check), but his record was later sealed and expunged. [21] [22] [23] [24] According to an attorney consulted by the fact-checking site PolitiFact, "Donalds would not have been able to get his record expunged if the state considered him a convicted felon." [25]

Donalds attended Florida A&M University and subsequently transferred. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and marketing from Florida State University in 2002. [16] [26]

Career

Donalds and President Donald Trump in 2019 with a former inmate freed by the First Step Act The 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum (48959680341).jpg
Donalds and President Donald Trump in 2019 with a former inmate freed by the First Step Act

Donalds began his professional career in 2003 as a credit analyst at TIB Bank. He was promoted to senior credit analyst in 2004, and later promoted to commercial credit manager, assistant vice president, and credit manager. Donalds left TIB Bank in 2007 and took a position as a portfolio manager at CMG Surety LLC. In 2015, he joined Wells Fargo Advisors as a Financial Advisor. [27]

After Donalds became involved in the Tea Party movement, he was encouraged to run for office. [16]

In 2012, Donalds was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida's 19th congressional district. He finished fifth of six candidates. [28] In 2014, he was reported as a likely candidate for the U.S. House in Florida's 19th congressional district after Trey Radel resigned, but did not run. [28]

Donalds was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2016. During his Florida House tenure, he chaired the Insurance and Banking Subcommittee. [29]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2020

Donalds being sworn in by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Byron Donalds swearing in 2.jpg
Donalds being sworn in by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Donalds was the Republican nominee for Florida's 19th congressional district in the 2020 election, running to succeed retiring incumbent Francis Rooney. He won a crowded nine-way Republican primary by 770 votes over State Representative Dane Eagle, finishing just over the threshold to avoid a recount. [30] [31] Republicans have a 550,000-voter advantage over Democrats in registration, and Florida Gulf Coast University professor Peter Bergerson noted that the Republican primary is almost always the real contest for most races in the area. [30] [32] In August 2020, anonymous text messages were sent out to constituents in the 19th district claiming that Donalds was dropping out of the race. Donalds later clarified via tweet that he was not dropping out and called the messages "illegal". [33] [34]

During his campaign, Donalds described himself as a "Trump supporting, gun owning, liberty loving, pro-life, politically incorrect Black man." [35] He stated his support for economic freedom, clean water, nuclear power and decreased government involvement in health care. He opposed the Green New Deal. [16]

In the November general election, Donalds defeated Democratic nominee Cindy Banyai. Donalds said he would focus on policy related to water quality in Southwest Florida. [36] Upon his swearing-in on January 3, 2021, Donalds became the sixth person to represent this district since its creation in 1983 (it had been the 13th District from 1983 to 1993, the 14th from 1993 to 2013, and has been the 19th since 2013).

Tenure in Congress

In late 2020, Donalds was identified as a participant in the "Freedom Force", a group of incoming House Republicans who "say they’re fighting against socialism in America". [37] [38] [39] The following year Donalds was blocked from joining the Congressional Black Caucus. [40] [41]

2020 Election

In January 2021, Donalds voted to object to the certification of electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania in the 2020 presidential election. [42] Donalds has since claimed that Joe Biden was not the legitimate president of the United States, a claim he repeated in a Vanity Fair interview in July 2023. [14]

Iraq

In June 2021, Donalds was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. [43] [44]

Syria

In 2023, Donalds was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days. [45] [46]

January 2023 Speaker of the House election

On January 3, 2023, Donalds received one vote in the 118th Congress's first election for Speaker of the House, from Chip Roy. [47] Donalds voted for Kevin McCarthy on the first two ballots, then for Jim Jordan on the third. [48] On January 4, on the fourth ballot, Roy nominated Donalds for Speaker, and he received 20 votes. [47] This marked the first time two Black lawmakers were nominated for Speaker, the other being Democratic nominee Hakeem Jeffries. [49] He was nominated by Lauren Boebert on the fifth ballot, and again received 20 votes. [50] He was sequentially nominated by Scott Perry, [51] Dan Bishop, Andy Biggs, Matt Rosendale, and Anna Paulina Luna on the sixth to tenth ballots. He was not nominated on the 11th ballot, but still received 12 votes. Donalds switched [52] his vote back to McCarthy after House Republican leadership made many concessions to House Freedom Caucus members.

October 2023 candidacy for Speaker

Donalds was a candidate for Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the October 2023 election. [53]

Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

Donalds was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House. [54]

Israel

Donalds voted to provide Israel with support following 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. [55] [56]

Jim Crow era

In a political outreach event in June 2024, Donalds opined as follows about the Jim Crow era: [57] [58]

You see, during Jim Crow, the black family was together. During Jim Crow, more black people were not just conservative, black people have always been conservative-minded, but more black people voted conservatively. And then, HEW., Lyndon Johnson, and then you go down that road, and now we are where we are. What's happened in America the last ten years, and I say it because it's my contemporaries…you're starting to see more black people be married in homes raising kids.

After some backlash against those remarks, Donalds denied “that Black people were doing better under Jim Crow” or that “Jim Crow is great”, and also denied having been inaccurate when he said that black marriage rates were relatively high during that era. [59]

Committee assignments

For the 118th Congress: [60]

Caucus memberships

Electoral history

2016

2016 Florida's 80th House district Republican primary [64]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Byron Donalds 9,115 64.4%
Republican Joe Davidow5,04135.6%
Total votes14,156 100.0
2016 Florida's 80th House district general election [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Byron Donalds 51,031 100.0%
Independent Anthony Joseph Cetrangelo (write-in)70.0%
Total votes51,038 100.0

2018

2018 Florida's 80th House district general election [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Byron Donalds 37,881 62.1%
Democratic Jennifer Boddicker22,20736.4%
Independent Dustin Alexander Lapolla9311.5%
Total votes61,019 100.0

2020

2020 Florida's 19th congressional district Republican primary results [65]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Byron Donalds 23,492 22.6%
Republican Dane Eagle 22,71521.9%
Republican Casey Askar20,77420.0%
Republican William Figlesthaler19,07518.3%
Republican Randy Henderson 7,8587.6%
Republican Christy McLaughlin4,2454.1%
Republican Dan Severson 3,1973.1%
Republican Darren Aquino1,4661.4%
Republican Daniel Kowal1,1351.1%
Total votes103,957 100.0%
2020 Florida's 19th congressional district general election [66]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Byron Donalds 272,440 61.27%
Democratic Cindy Banyai172,14638.72%
Independent Patrick Post (write-in)30.01%
Total votes444,589 100.0

2022

2022 Florida's 19th congressional district Republican primary results
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Byron Donalds 76,192 83.7
Republican Jim Huff14,79516.3
Total votes90,987 100.0
2022 Florida's 19th congressional district general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Byron Donalds 213,035 68.01%
Democratic Cindy Banyai100,22631.99%
Independent Patrick Post (write-in)130%
Total votes313,274 100.0%

Personal life

Byron Donalds married Bisa Hall on June 15, 1999. They divorced in 2002. [67] [68] Donalds married Erika (née Lees) on March 15, 2003. They have three sons and live in Naples, Florida. [69]

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