One Day Left: Jolly Adds a Polk County Stop, Trump Works the Phones for Florida

The last day of the Florida governor's race has a map, and it runs through the middle of the state. Democrat David Jolly will campaign in Polk County on Monday, a stop added to his closing tour after Gov. Ron DeSantis posted on Thursday night about relatively low Republican voter turnout there — a public worry from the outgoing governor about his own party's numbers in a Republican county, five days before the election.

Polk is expected to be Jolly's last stop before he heads to South Florida to wrap up his campaign, closing a final week that took him to The Villages — a Republican stronghold — and to Bethel Community Baptist Church in St. Petersburg on Friday night. His pitch in the closing days has leaned on reach: with far less money raised than Republican Byron Donalds, Jolly has argued that showing up in as many communities as possible is how he finds the undecided voters he still needs.

Donalds, of Naples, spent Friday on stage with President Donald Trump in Daytona Beach, and the president's closing weekend is built for exactly the turnout problem DeSantis flagged. Trump restored back-to-back Sunday rallies in Kansas and Iowa after initially canceling them, and his campaign added nearly 20 tele-rallies across the final weekend — 19 announced by the Republican National Committee, with Florida on the list — aimed at Republican voters in states where the party needs its base to show up on Tuesday.

By Monday night it is over: the rallies end, the tele-rallies end, and the race that polling has kept within a few points for weeks belongs entirely to the voters who walk into Florida's precincts on Tuesday, November 3. Polls across the state, including Lee and Collier Counties, are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.