Clearwater Mayor’s race to be decided after bitter, sometimes partisan battle

Municipal elections in Clearwater are often quiet affairs that attract limited attention and disappointing voter turnout. Four years ago, the last time the city had a mayoral election, voter turnout reached 32%. Like this year, that was a Presidential Election year, with the municipal election held the same day as the Presidential Primary in which then-President Donald Trump was the GOP nominee and now-President Joe Biden had all but secured the Democratic nomination. With Both Trump and Biden the presumptive nominees for their respective parties this year, it stands to...