Lower than per week earlier than Election Day, Republican Jon Maples is using a full-on media blitz to sway help in his favor and in opposition to his Democratic foe in a Particular Election for Home District 87.
Voters within the coastal Palm Seaside County district are receiving mailers touting Maples’ public service bona fides and marketing campaign platform whereas bashing Democrat health entrepreneur Emily Gregory, who’s competing with him for the long-vacant HD 87 seat.
After they activate the TV or surf the online, they’re additionally more likely to see one in every of a number of 30-second spots the Florida Home Republican Marketing campaign Committee (FHRCC) is operating on his behalf.
The mailers, additionally funded by the FHRCC, prominently point out that Maples carries an endorsement from Legal professional Basic James Uthmeier and native regulation enforcement, helps crackdowns on unlawful immigration and backs first responders.
In distinction, they are saying Gregory — who isn’t named on the mailers — has attended protests in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has referred to as for an finish to deportations in on-line posts and raised cash to carry deported migrants again to the U.S.
As proof, one mailer highlights an Aug. 27, 2025, Fb publish wherein Gregory thanked the organizers of an occasion referred to as “Vigil for Youngsters Affected by ICE” and requested followers to donate to the teams. The publish included the hashtags #EndDeportations and #FamiliesBelongTogether.
“Migrant crime has claimed too many lives in South Florida,” the mailer says. “Emily Gregory desires extra of it.”
One other mailer options mugshots of “prison alien sexual predators & violent criminals” who can be free on Florida’s streets, it says, “if Emily Gregory have been in cost.” The mailer additionally factors to Gregory’s August Fb publish and features a screencap of a Nov. 13 ICE information launch on the arrest of 230 undocumented immigrants “who’re sexual predators and have egregious prison histories.”
Gregory is “improper on immigration” and “improper for Florida,” the mailer says, whereas Maples “will maintain Floridians protected.”
One of many video advertisements the FRCC is circulating options Maples describing himself as a “businessman, husband, father and proud Floridian,” not a politician; he works as a monetary planner to assist “households shield their cash and plan for the long run.”
“When authorities places strain on Florida households, I wish to do one thing about it,” Maples, a former Lake Clarke Shores Council member and previous Palm Seaside County Fee candidate, says within the video. “My plan is straightforward: lower taxes, authorities spending and property insurance coverage premiums. And I’m asking to your vote.”
The video, which is probably going focusing on Democrats and independents, doesn’t point out Maples’ political affiliation or any partisan points.
However one other video does. It opens on a split-screen shot of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar — all Democrats, none Floridians — asserting they’ll “by no means cease persecuting” President Donald Trump, “combating” Gov. Ron DeSantis, supporting “open borders” and being OK with “excessive costs” and “unraveling Florida’s freedoms.”
“On March 24, leftist Democrats need your Home seat. Their solely path to victory is thru you,” a voiceover within the advert says. “Cease them by turning out to avoid wasting Florida, to guard freedom, to vote. March 24 — Jon Maples, Florida Home candidate.”
HD 87 — which runs up the coast by way of Palm Seaside Gardens, Jupiter, Juno Seaside and Hypoluxo —has trended reliably Republican in current cycles. Caruso received re-election by 19 share factors in 2024, when President Donald Trump carried the district by roughly 9 factors.
Each Gregory and Maples superior to the Basic Election after overwhelming Major wins in January, every securing greater than 80% of the vote of their respective contests.
Election Day is Tuesday.
