Fine, who has been in the Florida House for eight years, was just elected to the state Senate but Tuesday said he will seek the congressional seat opened when the President-elect tapped U.S. Rep.

Republican Randy Fine, just elected to a state Senate seat in Brevard County, is a candidate in the special election in Florida’s 6th Congressional District, now an open seat as incumbent Michael Waltz is resigning to serve as national security adviser to President-elect Donald Trump.

If elected, the Florida state legislator, who has a history of inflammatory comments, would be the fourth Jewish Republican in the next Congress