Victoria Doyle
Victoria Doyle (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Florida's 22nd Congressional District. She declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Doyle completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Victoria Doyle earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont in 1988 and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1994.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: Florida's 22nd Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House Florida District 22
Incumbent Lois Frankel, Ian Blake, Victoria Doyle, Deborah Adeimy, and Anna Medvedeva are running in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 22 on November 3, 2026.
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 | Lois Frankel (D) | |
| Ian Blake (D) | ||
 | Victoria Doyle (D)  | |
 | Deborah Adeimy (R) | |
| Anna Medvedeva (R) | ||
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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As an attorney, my specialty was intellectual property, which is the legal term for people’s creative ideas. My job was to protect American originality in the global IP marketplace, the most valuable asset of most companies. I had to know the law, follow the law, and counsel clients candidly about the law.
So why me? The Democrats need high energy, creative fighters right now and our representative, Lois Frankel, is not meeting the moment. She’s content to do the bare minimum, while begging voters to re-elect her so she can “hold the line.”
What line? Our country is in a downward spiral and Rep. Frankel is partly to blame. During her 12+ years in Congress, life in America became more unaffordable for most people, women lost fundamental rights, and Property insurance costs in Florida have skyrocketed while Congress has done nothing to help.
- Economic Equity - The divide between the rich and the poor has grown into a chasm so great, it threatens the American way of life. More than 63% of Americans cannot afford a $500 emergency. Moreover, when consumer prices for everyday things like food and clothes jump 10-20% without warning -- with corporations blaming supply chain issues that have already been resolved or tariffs that have yet to be levied -- it forces average Americans to lose their financial footing. We need an economic system that is fair for all, and where government intervention is needed, we need to make sure it favors workers and consumers, not extremely profitable corporations, so we may ensure the American Dream is still viable for everyone.
- Property Insurance -- It has been 8-plus months since Hurricanes Helene and Milton which left more than $56 billion in damage in their wake. Since then, more than half of the resulting insurance claims have been rejected. Not pending. Rejected. Homeowners are between city and county inspectors who mandate the replacement of damaged roofs and structures, while insurance companies balk at the expense and tell homeowners they will only pay for surface repairs. Meanwhile insurance companies rake in roughly $11 billion a year in premiums, up from $5 billion in 2020. Worse, Florida officials tried to bury a report that revealed insurers who claimed to be losing millions were steering billions to investors. It’s time for this nonsense to end.
- Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid -- For decades, the very notion of tinkering with Social Security’s benefits to the elderly -- which lifted millions out of poverty -- was considered blasphemy. Today, far right Republicans are trying everything to diminish the program we pay into our entire working lives: let’s privatize it, let’s raise the retirement age, let’s lower benefits, let’s give it to Elon Musk. It’s time to redraw the line in the sand. I will fight fiercely against anyone who wants to fundamentally change Social Security in any way that would jeopardize it. And the same goes for Medicare and Medicaid, which is being gutted by the bill just passed by Congress. I will fight to rollback all these cuts.
She lived through the Great Depression and World War II. She experienced disruption and hardship as a child when her father joined the navy and her mother moved the family to Washington, DC to work for the CIA’s precursor the OSS. She became a school teacher, and after marrying, she and my father had four daughters who they raised in NYC in the 1970s when the economy was sagging. She established a tight and balanced budget that we had to live by. It included very few new clothes, meat for dinner just 2-3 times a week, no restaurants or take-out, and we were latch-key kids, meaning no babysitter or mom after school. She worked full-time (as did my father) and we minded ourselves (with the help of TV and SpaghettiOs).
My mother worked in a time when women couldn’t have their own credit cards, and abortion was illegal. She and my father supported women’s right to choose following traumatic experiences in college. I remember one summer in the early 70s, they rented a table at a country fair in upstate New York to advocate for abortion rights. We four girls were standing with them around the table and men would lean into our faces and scream “your parents are baby killers!” which was confusing and frightening to us children who clearly had not been “killed.”
No. The single most important characteristic for an elected official is honesty. Floridians in FL-22 need an honest broker to not only keep them informed about what is happening in Washington D.C., but also one who will listen to constituents and place their needs front and center. The two-faced Congress members we’ve heard so much about recently - who tell their colleagues one thing in private, and the public another thing, need to be called out for their dishonesty.
compel me to want to solve problems drawing on facts and empathy.
Doing the bare minimum is not enough. Doing less than the bare minimum is unacceptable, especially during an Executive Branch overreach. I know I am not the only one who thinks Congress needs to be doing a lot more and more effectively.
It’s telling that since then, Nixon has been featured in dozens of movies and TV shows, with about half of them being comedies. But the damage he did to our democracy was no joke, and there is an extent to which we still have not completely recovered from it.
"They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them: their vast glittering openness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltiness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space. They are unique also in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass."
However, if you’re talking about experience with the law, advocating for people who have been wronged and relying on our system of laws to find justice, then, yes, and I’m your champion. The Constitution’s list of qualifications to run for office are few, because the intention was that anyone who wants to serve can find a path to do so. For me, the passion to right wrongs and protect Americans are the only qualifications that matter.
Joe Neguse (D-CO): As a freshman in the 116th Congress, he introduced three times the average number of bills for a new representative and successfully steered three of them into law, including legislation to expand Rocky Mountains National Park.
Elaine Luria (D-VA): In her first term, she passed four bills into law, including legislation increasing disability compensation for veterans. As a result, she was named chair of the subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Jake Auchincloss (D-MA): As a new and young Congressman, he has introduced several major bills to (1) curb pharmaceutical price gouging, and increase transparency in drug pricing, (2) support public transportation, (3) target cyberstalking, online privacy violations, and digital forgeries, and (3) enhance the security of US supply chains. He has also co-sponsored legislation on gun violence research, support for Ukraine, and a ban on oil and gas leasing off New England.
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX): She has been recognized for outperforming many committee chairs by introducing a large number of bills (52), with three becoming law. These laws focused on areas like human rights and blood doping in sports.
“If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.”
“You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.”
“I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren is a dedicated and passionate public servant who centers workers, consumers, and fairness with effective policy. Her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB), clawed back billions from corporate fraud giving consumers direct monetary relief. It also capped credit card late fees at $8, and cracked down on unreasonable and punitive bank overdraft fees. President Trump has all but dismantled the CFPB, with mass layoffs and no further funding. Its acting director, Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, ordered all enforcement actions halted, which means consumers defrauded by big banks and other businesses will get no relief.
I would also like to sit on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is tasked with regulating media and tech policy -- two American institutions that direly need attention. I’m currently reading a very good book about the media called “Saving the News,” written by the blockbuster father-daughter team of Newton Minow, the first chairman of the FCC and Martha Minow, the retired dean of the Harvard Law School. For history buffs, Newton Minow devised the Fairness Doctrine, which kept media largely objective for decades until it was struck down by President Ronald Reagan. That sole act became the harbinger of what would become the media circus in which we live today. Congress needs to rein in an out of control media landscape that is riddled with unchecked falsities.
I cannot express in words alone just how dire the current crisis is. I am not prone to hyperbole, and I reject fear-mongering, but the shift from a democracy to a dictatorship is no longer a crazy notion. It is happening right now, in front of our eyes, in real time. If we don’t draw the line here and now, we’re staring down the barrel of a government rifle aimed at anyone who doesn’t agree with it.
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2026 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 9, 2025
