Randall Adam Fine (born April 20, 1974) is an American politician and former gambling industry executive serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 6th congressional district since April 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Florida Senate from 2024 to 2025 and in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016 to 2024. His congressional district covers a six-county area that includes Daytona Beach.
Born in Arizona and raised in Kentucky, Fine graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in government and earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from Harvard Business School. After working for McKinsey & Company and later as a teaching fellow at Harvard, Fine became a corporate executive working in the casino gambling industry. In 2016, Fine was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in his first of four consecutive elections. In 2024, Fine was elected to the Florida Senate from the 19th district, representing most of Brevard County.
Following Mike Waltz's resignation from Congress to become U.S. national security advisor, Fine won the election for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2025 special election which Waltz had vacated.
Known for his "bare-knuckle style of politics", Fine is a social conservative and a staunch ally of President Donald Trump. Regarded by his supporters as "the future of Republican Jewish politics", his critics have accused him of making many statements characterized as anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic, and anti-LGBT.
Fine was raised in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from Henry Clay High School in 1992, where he was co-valedictorian. "Corbin Times Tribune Archives," April 23, 1990, p. 2. He spent his 11th grade year of high school in 1990–91 as a page of the United States House of Representatives; upon being chosen, he said "I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be next year than Washington on the floor of the House of Representatives." During the summers of 1991 and 1992, he was an intern for U.S. representative Robert Dornan (R-CA).
Fine graduated from Harvard University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in government magna cum laude in 1996. In 1995, he was chair of the Harvard University Undergraduate Council student affairs committee.Andrew A. Green (April 15, 1995). Members Sign Petition Censuring Liston," The Harvard Crimson. While an undergraduate, he was active in student politics, and was accused of election financial improprieties by what he said was an anonymous source in a smear campaign. He then attended and graduated from Harvard Business School (HBS), where he earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) with high honors in 1998. At HBS, he was named a Baker Scholar, Harvard's highest award for academic achievement.
In 2005, at 31 years of age he founded, and for nearly ten years thereafter operated, a Nevada-based casino industry, cruise line, tech, and health care consulting and management business, called the Fine Point Group, with locations in Florida, Memphis, and Las Vegas.Drew Wilson (November 15, 2018). "FITCon 2018: If Florida wants tech, it needs talent," Florida Politics.Nancy Smith (April 26, 2016). "Randy Fine Collects 3 Endorsements for Tobia's HD 53 Seat," Sunshine State News.Frank Legalo (December 24, 2009). "People Who Make a Difference," Global Gaming Business Magazine. It advised casino operators in Las Vegas, San Diego, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. "Fine Point Group Named to Run New Mexico Casinos," Global Gaming Business Magazine, February 1, 2011. " Randall A. Fine," The Fine Point Group. In 2009, he was the chief executive officer of the Greektown Casino in Detroit, Michigan; the casino's revenue increased 9% as the market shrunk 5%. "World-Class CRM," Global Gaming Business Magazine, October 1, 2012. In 2015, Fine explored a U.S. Senate bid; he opted instead to run for the Florida state legislature.Matt Dixon (July 1, 2015). "Republican Randy Fine won’t run for U.S. Senate," Politico.
The editorial board of local newspaper Florida Today has criticized Fine's personal style. Their joint editorial observed that "Fine is obviously a hard working lawmaker who has used his watchdog skills to do good" but said that "Fine should defend what he believes in, but not by launching tirades against others as crusades on behalf of his constituents. He can look good without trying to make others look bad with personal attacks." There are multiple cases of Fine using "threats to pull or withhold state funding... to strike back at political rivals and retaliate over perceived slights." These include the Brevard Zoo (2023), a Palm Bay Magnet High School firefighter academy (2022), and the West Melbourne Special Olympics (2021; Fine denied he threatened to get the funding pulled). In April 2023, the Florida Commission on Ethics found probable cause he violated ethics rules by threatening to withhold state funding over a personal dispute and interfering in a council member's request for public records. In October 2024, county judge Blaue held Fine in contempt of court for making an obscene gesture and making the "loser" hand sign during a virtual hearing over an election paperwork dispute.Elizabeth Urban (October 2, 2024). "Florida Lawmaker Ordered to Attend Anger Management Class by Judge He Is Trying to Impeach; "I think the entire hearing was a clown show," State Rep. Randy Fine said," Latin Times. Fine was ordered to take an 8-hour anger management course.
Due to Florida's resign-to-run law, after announcing his candidacy for the United States Congress, Fine submitted his resignation from the Florida Senate effective March 31, 2025.
On November 26, 2024, Fine declared his candidacy for Waltz's former seat representing Florida's 6th congressional district in the United States Congress. He was endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump (who wrote: "Randy Fine has my Complete and Total Endorsement. RUN, RANDY, RUN!"), Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), House majority leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and House majority whip Tom Emmer (R-MN). "Randy Fine runs for Congress with Trump’s endorsement in District 6," Florida Voice News. His campaign page listed as his priorities “Secure our borders,” “Protect our elections from fraud,” “Defend life,” and “Protect the Second Amendment at all costs.”
On the day of his announcement, he posted on Twitter (formerly Twitter) that "the Hebrew Hammer was coming" and that progressive representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar "might consider leaving before I get there. #BombsAway". He had previously used this hashtag to call for violence in the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Haaretz deemed the announcement a threat, and it was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League, but Fine denied that he had any intent to threaten.
Fine won the Republican primary with 83% of the vote. He defeated Aaron Baker and Ehsan Joarder. "Florida Sixth Congressional District Special Primary Election Results," The New York Times.
Fine repeatedly labeled his progressive Democratic opponent, Josh Weil, as "Jihad Josh." He called for Weil's arrest after a convicted felon paid staffer on Weil's campaign was arrested on burglary and theft charges as she was handing out fliers for Weil's campaign. He also raised a 2015 case in which Weil, who is a teacher, was suspended for misconduct after a student accused Weil of slamming him to the ground.
In the April 1 general election, Fine defeated Weil by 14 percentage points, 57%–43%. "Florida Sixth District Special Election Results," The New York Times. Weil had outraised Fine by $10 million to under $1 million.
In June 2025, Fine introduced a bill to designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a terrorist organization. CAIR had previously labelled Fine as an "anti-Muslim extremist" and characterized several of his statements as "genocidal rhetoric." In particular, CAIR criticized social media statements where Fine posted "#StarveAway" in response to a post regarding the starvation of Gaza's civilian population and a post in which Fine wrote that "Gaza must be destroyed."
Fine regularly wears a Kippah on the House floor and when serving as Speaker pro tempore. He is believed to be the first person to wear a Kippah from the Speaker's podium.
In an interview with the Washington Reporter, Fine called for Israel to "unleash Hell on Iran" in response to the Islamic Republic’s retaliatory missile attacks on civilian targets in Israel. Fine described the strikes, which he said numbered in the hundreds, as a "genocidal attack" and urged a strong retaliatory response against Iran’s leadership. While maintaining a hawkish stance, referring to Iran’s rulers as "Muslim lunatics" incompatible with Western values, Fine also praised President Trump for his efforts to negotiate with Iran.
Following the United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, Fine took to Twitter to praise President Trump’s decision, saying, "Donald Trump has never let us down. I wrote this after October 7, 2023, when I endorsed him to return as President. I knew that when the world needed him, he would be there to save it." He then concluded the post with the message, "Bombs away."
In April 2019, Fine called Paul Halpern, a progressive Jewish constituent of his, a "Judenrat" for supporting an event that discussed the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
In May 2021, amid an ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine, Fine made several posts and comments on his social media pages regarding Palestinians, including a celebration of the Israeli army's bombing of the Gaza Strip. Regarding the deaths of Palestinian children during the conflict, he said, "I don't personally feel bad when human shields are killed."
In October 2023, Fine switched his endorsement in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries from Ron DeSantis to Donald Trump over their reactions to antisemitism and the Gaza war. He lauded Trump for moving the United States embassy to Jerusalem, and for Abraham Accords.
On October 10, 2023, Fine arranged for "Regards from Randy Fine" to be written on an artillery shell to be fired on Gaza, and later arranged for messages on two more shells.
In November 2023, Fine voted against a Florida House of Representatives unsuccessful resolution calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing Gaza war introduced by Angie Nixon, which only received two supporting votes, asserting that anyone who voted for the resolution was anti-Semitic and "putting every Jewish child in the state at risk."
Fine called Ireland an "antisemitic country" after it recognized the State of Palestine in May 2024. He pledged to introduce a bill to ban Florida government entities from contracting with Irish, Norwegian, and Spanish companies, after the latter two countries also recognized Palestine. When Governor DeSantis visited Ireland in August 2024 to attend the Florida State–Georgia Tech football game, Fine criticized the governor, saying, "I was certainly disappointed to see not only folks go to what is clearly an antisemitic country that supports Muslim terror, but I was also disappointed that the game wasn’t cancelled, which it should have been."
Following the killing of Turkish-American citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi by the Israel Defense Forces in September 2024, Fine tweeted "Throw rocks, get shot. One less #MuslimTerrorist. #FireAway," drawing a call by the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, for the legislature to censure Fine.
In December 2024, Fine introduced a bill in the Florida Senate which would ban "flags with a political viewpoint" from being flown in Florida government buildings. He targeted the flag of Palestine, LGBTQ pride flags, and Black Lives Matter flags, though the bill itself does not specify those flags. In a press release, he called Palestine a "fictional country," referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as "pro-violence," and repeatedly promoted the LGBTQ grooming conspiracy theory, writing, "Supporters of Muslim terror, child mutilators, and groomers have no right to taxpayer sponsorship of their repugnant messages."
Fine planned to move to Israel along with his family had Kamala Harris won the 2024 United States presidential election.
After the remains of the kidnapped Bibas family mother and children were returned to Israel in February 2025, Fine claimed in a series of tweets that there was no such thing as innocent Palestinian civilians, called them "demons that live on Earth" who "deserve death," and said that "Gaza must be destroyed." The Council on American–Islamic Relations repeated its call for Fine to be censured in response.
Following the 2025 killing of Israeli embassy workers in Washington, D.C. during which the alleged shooter shouted "Free Palestine", Fine called for nuclear weapons to be used in Gaza during an interview with Fox News. Fine said that "The Palestinian cause is an evil one … We nuked the Japanese twice in in order to get unconditional surrender. That needs to be the same here." In The American Conservative, activist Jason Jones wrote that the Trumpism has "much more in common with the best representatives of the free Palestine movement" than Fine's "mass-murderous brand of Zionism." Jones wrote that Fine is a disgrace and should resign from Congress or his colleagues in Congress should force him out.
In July 2025, amid increasing warnings about the famine in Gaza, Fine tweeted to "starve away" until Israeli hostages were returned and dismissed the reporting on starving Palestinians as "Muslim terror propaganda". His post was condemned by the American Jewish Committee for making light of the humanitarian crisis. He subsequently repeated claims that the situation was a hoax and argued that for laws to allow people to run over pro-Palestinian protestors blocking roads. Sometime after his tweets, Fine was removed from a database of pro-Israeli politicians maintained by AIPAC.
In April 2021, Fine was one of 77 Republicans in the House to vote yes on bill CS/HB 1475 which bars transgender girls and women from playing on girls' sports teams at public schools; it passed, and was signed by the governor.
Fine proposed a 2023 bill to ban Drag show where children might be in attendance. Opponents of the bill said it would ban his own wife's "sultry performances" at the Spring Forward for Autism gala, which benefits a children's charity. NBC News reported that video of previous years' galas, where his wife performed, confirmed that toddlers were in attendance, and Business Insider reported that in previous years children performed alongside adults at the galas. In 2023, the gala included a performances by Rainbow Circus Miami, and Randy Fine was one of the gala's prominent sponsors.
After the 2025 New Orleans truck attack, which was committed by an American-born convert to Islam whose truck was flying the flag of the radical Islamist terror group ISIS as he killed 15 people, Fine called for non-citizen supporters of "Muslim terror" to be deported. He wrote on Twitter that "Muslim terror has attacked the United States — again. The blood is on the hands of those who refuse to acknowledge the worldwide #MuslimProblem." Trump ally Richard Grenell criticized Fine's post and said it was not helpful.
At a public hearing Fine chaired in March 2025, he was booed by attendees after he said "enjoy your terrorist rag" to a member of the public wearing a keffiyeh. Fine responded by saying "I'm the chairman, I can say what I want."
Following the victory of Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, in the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Fine made unsubstantiated claims that Mamdani wanted to start a "caliphate" in New York City and wrote that "If Mamdani has his way, NYC classrooms won't be teaching the Constitution in civics class. They'll be teaching Sharia Law." He warned that Mamdani could transform New York City the way Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei transformed Tehran, and argued that radical Muslims must not be allowed to turn America into a "Shiite caliphate."
In a July 2025 tweet, Fine falsely accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a "Muslim terrorist". Democratic leaders demanded an apology, with Rep. Pete Aguilar calling the comment “unhinged, racist and Islamophobic” and “bigoted and disgusting.”
Fine and his second wife, Wendy, have two boys. In 2007, he and his wife purchased a two-bedroom 4,000 square foot home in Melbourne Beach, to which they added 4,500 square feet at a cost, with improvements to the original space, of $1,000,000.
Fine formerly attended a Conservative Jewish synagogue in Melbourne. However, Fine quit the synagogue after allegedly threatening to "burn it to the ground" when the synagogue hired a LGBTQ+ employee. Fine attended Temple Beth Sholom, which describes itself as a Conservative synagogue on their website.
|-
Early career
Florida legislature
Florida House of Representatives (2016–24)
Elections
+2025 U.S. House Of Representatives Florida Special Election: District 6
! colspan="2" Party
!Candidate
!Votes
!% Republican
!Randy Fine 110,980 56.7 Democratic
!Joshua Weil 83,580 42.7 Libertarian
!Andrew Parrot 702 0.36 No Party Afilliation
!Randall Terry 526 0.27 Write-In
!Chuck Sheridan 12 0.01 ! colspan="4"Republican hold
Tenure
Reedy Creek Improvement District
Committee assignments (2022–24)
Florida Senate (2024–25)
Committee assignments
U.S. House of Representatives
2025 U.S House campaign
Tenure
Political views
COVID-19 response
Crime
Economy and fiscal
Education
Environment
Gun rights
Immigration
Iran
Israel and Palestine
Ukraine
LGBT rights
Muslims
Personal life
See also
External links
|
|