"If I run, I would be the most pro-consumer candidate on the Republican side,” Gaetz said, vowing to pray and speak to his wife before making a decision.

Last year, Moskowitz said he was looking into a run for governor in 2026. Among the reasons he said he’d be a fit: He’s shown he can work with Republicans. From 2019 until 2021, Moskowitz was the head of DeSantis' Division of Emergency Management.

The former congressman was the focus of a House Ethics panel report accusing him of “regularly” paying for sex and using drugs, which helped doom his short-lived nomination for attorney general.