Augustus Sol Invictus

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Augustus Sol Invictus

Republican Party

Elections and appointments

Last convention

August 24, 2020

Augustus Sol Invictus (Republican Party) ran for election for President of the United States. He lost as a write-in in the Republican convention on August 24, 2020.

The Senate race in Florida was considered a race to watch by USA Today. Although three-term incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D) won re-election in 2012 by a margin of 13 points, his position as the only Democrat elected to statewide office in Florida was seen as evidence of his vulnerability in the state heading into 2018.

• Click here to learn more about the August 28, 2018, Republican Party primary.
• Click here to learn more about the November 6, 2018, general election.

Invictus was a 2016 Libertarian candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from Florida.

Elections

2018

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Florida

Rick Scott defeated incumbent Bill Nelson in the general election for U.S. Senate Florida on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Rick Scott (R)	50.1	4,099,505
		Bill Nelson (D)	49.9	4,089,472
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	1,028

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,190,005
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Joe Allen (Independent)
• Joe Wendt (L)
• Gregory Bowles (Independent)
• Carlos Garcia (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Florida

Incumbent Bill Nelson advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Florida on August 28, 2018.

		Candidate
✔		Bill Nelson

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Tamika Lyles (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Florida

Rick Scott defeated Roque De La Fuente in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Florida on August 28, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Rick Scott	88.6	1,456,187
		Roque De La Fuente	11.4	187,209

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,643,396
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Martin Mikhail (R)
• Augustus Sol Invictus (R)
• Joe Smith (R)
• Marcia Thorne (R)

2016

See also: United States Senate election in Florida, 2016

The race for Florida's U.S. Senate seat was one of nine competitive battleground races in 2016 that that helped Republicans maintain control of the Senate. Incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio (R) defeated U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy (D), Iraq war veteran Paul Stanton (L), and nine independent and write-in candidates in the general election, which took place on November 8, 2016. According to Politico, Rubio was “the first Republican senator from the Sunshine State ever to win reelection in a presidential election year.”

Rubio called Murphy "hyper-partisan," "a rubber stamp for, God forbid, a Clinton presidency," and accused him of fabricating his qualifications. Murphy criticized Rubio, saying, "Sen. Rubio has the worst vote attendance record of any Florida senator in nearly 50 years." Murphy's spokeswoman Galia Slayen said, "Marco Rubio is willing to abandon his responsibility to Floridians and hand over our country's national security to Donald Trump, as long as it advances his own political career."

In his victory speech, Rubio said, “[I] hope that I and my colleagues as we return to work in Washington D.C. can set a better example how political discourse should exist in this country. And I know people feel betrayed and you have a right to. Every major institution in our society has failed us — the media, the government, big business, Wall Street, academia — they have all failed us. So people are so frustrated and angry. But we must channel that anger and frustration into something positive. Let it move us forward as energy to confront and solve our challenges and our problems.”

U.S. Senate, Florida General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Marco Rubio Incumbent	52%	4,835,191
	Democratic	Patrick Murphy	44.3%	4,122,088
	Libertarian	Paul Stanton	2.1%	196,956
	Independent	Bruce Nathan	0.6%	52,451
	Independent	Tony Khoury	0.5%	45,820
	Independent	Steven Machat	0.3%	26,918
	Independent	Basil Dalack	0.2%	22,236
	N/A	Write-in	0%	160
Total Votes				9,301,820
Source: Florida Division of Elections

U.S. Senate, Florida Republican Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Marco Rubio Incumbent	72%	1,029,830
Carlos Beruff	18.5%	264,427
Dwight Young	6.4%	91,082
Ernie Rivera	3.2%	45,153
Total Votes		1,430,492
Source: Florida Division of Elections

U.S. Senate, Florida Democratic Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Patrick Murphy	58.9%	665,985
Alan Grayson	17.7%	199,929
Pam Keith	15.4%	173,919
Roque De La Fuente	5.4%	60,810
Reginald Luster	2.6%	29,138
Total Votes		1,129,781
Source: Florida Division of Elections

U.S. Senate, Florida Libertarian Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Paul Stanton	73.5%	2,946
Augustus Invictus Sol	26.5%	1,063
Total Votes		4,009
Source: Florida Division of Elections

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Invictus' campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“	Ending the Drug War: The War on Drugs is a failure and an embarrassment. It is a failure, not because the cartels have won, but because it is not the Government’s role to regulate vice. It is an embarrassment, not because the American people continue to consume drugs, but because we have spent countless billions of dollars trying to cure the world of substances once revered by our ancestors. It is not crime, but an obsession with vice, that has destroyed the community of our country. We must repeal the Controlled Substances Act, abolish the Drug Enforcement Administration, and stop militarizing the police against its own citizens in the name of morality. Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy: For the past hundred years, the United States has involved itself in the wars of the world, justifying its greed with dubious talk of peace and brotherhood. Our Government has assumed the mantle of the world’s policeman, dedicated to interfering with the Governments of other nations in other parts of the globe. This has cost us an extraordinary amount of American lives, countless trillions of dollars, and untold embarrassment. We must embrace a policy of non-intervention without becoming isolationist; we must lead the world without becoming the monsters we swore to fight; we must decline to waste billions of dollars protecting reckless allies and laying waste to sovereign countries in the name of humanity. Sound Monetary Policy: Spending by the Federal Government has been out of control for generations. If we are to avoid a total collapse, we must make drastic changes to the federal financial structure. We must balance the budget; shrink the size of the Government; cease reckless Government spending; deregulate American businesses. We must repeal the individual income tax, abolish the Internal Revenue Service, and recreate the tax code so that the American people can understand what they are being asked to pay to their Government. Abolish the Federal Reserve: Few Americans are aware that our money is printed not by the Federal Government but by the Federal Reserve. Few Americans are aware that the Federal Reserve is not a branch of our Government but is actually a group of private banks; or that the Federal Reserve lends money to our government at interest; or that this usurpation of power by private banks is intended to make the banks richer, not to help the public good. It is a force inimical to the American people, and it is the foremost cause of economic ruin in our country. We must repeal the Federal Reserve Act and abolish the Federal Reserve. Civil Liberties: Whether an American marries a member of the same sex or of the opposite sex is not the concern of the Government. Whether an American speaks with his wife or his mistress is not the concern of the NSA. Whether an American consumes alcohol or marijuana is not the concern of the DEA. Whether an American owns one firearm or three is not the concern of the ATF. We must restore our civil liberties and limit the power of the Government to interfere with the private affairs of our citizens.	”
—Augustus Sol Invictus' campaign website, http://www.invictusforsenate.com/platform.html

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See also

• United States Senate
• United States Senate election in Florida, 2018
• United States Senate election in Florida, 2016

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Footnotes

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Florida's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Ashley Moody (R)

Rick Scott (R)

Representatives

District 1

Jimmy Patronis (R)

District 2

Neal Dunn (R)

District 3

Kat Cammack (R)

District 4

Aaron Bean (R)

District 5

John Rutherford (R)

District 6

Randy Fine (R)

District 7

Cory Mills (R)

District 8

Mike Haridopolos (R)

District 9

Darren Soto (D)

District 10

Maxwell Frost (D)

District 11

Daniel Webster (R)

District 12

Gus Bilirakis (R)

District 13

Anna Luna (R)

District 14

Kathy Castor (D)

District 15

Laurel Lee (R)

District 16

Vern Buchanan (R)

District 17

Greg Steube (R)

District 18

Scott Franklin (R)

District 19

Byron Donalds (R)

District 20

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D)

District 21

Brian Mast (R)

District 22

Lois Frankel (D)

District 23

Jared Moskowitz (D)

District 24

Frederica Wilson (D)

District 25

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D)

District 26

Mario Diaz-Balart (R)

District 27

Maria Elvira Salazar (R)

District 28

Carlos Gimenez (R)

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