DeSantis-endorsed school board candidates in Florida mostly struggled

Things didn’t go well Tuesday in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempt to push Florida’s local school boards toward his agenda.

Eleven of the 23 candidates he endorsed appeared to have lost their races, while six won and five headed to November runoffs. One remained too close to call just after 9 p.m.

The outcome for the governor’s effort was particularly poor in the Tampa Bay region, where the incumbents he targeted as being too liberal — Laura Hine and Eileen Long in Pinellas County, and Nadia Combs and Jessica Vaughn in Hillsborough County — handily won reelection.

Those results heartened Katie Blaxberg, another Pinellas...