Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedAug 24, 2026, 5:12 AM UTC
To election day72 days
Simulations200,000

Florida 5th District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running · district redrawn for 2026

Democrat
Rachel Grage
6%
Republican
John Rutherford
94%
ForecastLikely R
Projected margin
R+17.5
80% range
R+31.3 to R+3.6
Partisan lean
R+19.9
Tipping-point chance
0.13%
Uncertainty multiplier
1.80×

The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.

How the estimate is built
Fundamentals 100.0%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
R+16.9
Blended
R+16.9
Similar-race shift
+0.1
Polling

No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.

Fundamentals
Partisan lean
R+19.9
Elasticity
1.02
Incumbency
−1.9
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
−0.0
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
R+16.9

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