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James Fishback is projected to win every college campus precinct over Byron Donalds. Despite having lost to Donalds and Collins, Fishback is likely on track to win younger voters outright and a plurality of the 18-34 demographic or similar young voting groups. ...

The Justice Department denied that Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is under investigation after James Fishback, one of his opponents in the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary, said he faced a “federal sex trafficking probe.” “Falsely accusing someone of being under investigation is a dangerous form of weaponization. This claim is not true. Congressman Byron Donalds is not under investigation,” the DOJ Rapid Response X account posted. “Byron Donalds and Cory Mills are under investigation for federal sex trafficking. The dates that prosecutors are focused on are May 17, 2024 and November 19, 2024 at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill,...

The legally troubled candidate is making unsubstantiated late-campaign claims against the likely GOP nominee. James Fishback has spent a significant amount of time in courtrooms during his run for Governor, but now he says, without proof, that likely Republican nominee Byron Donalds is the one who merits legal scrutiny. Donalds’ camp says the allegations are “completely false.” “We will not be distracted by this baseless and defamatory sideshow, and neither should you,” said spokesman Gates McGavick. And a law enforcement source called Florida Politics and said the allegations against Mills were “absolutely false.” Fishback said a “government whistleblower” presented evidence,...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-abuse25sep25,0,4578648.story?coll=la-home-world THE WORLD Officer's Road Led Him Outside Army Capt. Ian Fishback repeatedly voiced his concern about prisoner abuse in Iraq to his superiors, but felt he was being brushed off. By Richard A. Serrano Times Staff Writer September 25, 2005 WASHINGTON — When Army Capt. Ian Fishback told his company and battalion commanders that soldiers were abusing Iraqi prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention, he says, they told him those rules were easily skirted. When he wrote a memo saying Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was wrong in telling Congress that the Army follows the Geneva dictates, his...