David Jolly’s political transformation is almost a mirror image of his native Florida. Born in Dunedin, just west of Tampa, and raised in Dade City about an hour north, Jolly won a special election in 2014 to represent Florida’s 13th congressional district—replacing his moderate Republican mentor and former House Appropriations Committee chairman, Bill Young. But in 2016, redistricting made FL-13 dramatically more Democratic, and Jolly lost a close race against the state’s Republican-turned-Democrat former governor Charlie Crist. This was probably for the best: Jolly had started denouncing Donald Trump a year earlier, following Trump’s proposed Muslim ban, and would have been an uncomfortable fit with the president’s MAGAfied G.O.P., and an unhappy camper in the bargain.