Daphne Campbell

On Thursday, August 9, Campbell attended a campaign event in the lead-up to the Democratic primary in her district. At the event, hosted by the Social Citizens of Southeast Florida, Campbell was approached by a reporter with the Miami Herald. After declining to grant an interview to the Herald, Campbell called North Miami Beach Police on the reporter, claiming threats had been made against her. Police found no evidence any threats had been made. The August incident was preceded by a similar event in which Campbell had called police on a reporter at a Miami Shores Village Council meeting in May, 2018.

In 2017, Rise News reported that Campbell had used personal connections with Florida Power and Light officials to get service restored to her home and the homes of family members under the pretenses of assisting her ailing mother in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in September, 2017. Campbell, whose mother passed away in 1996, shared the information with Rise News during an event she hosted in her district that was co-sponsored by the Church of Scientology. During this event, she also attacked fellow Democratic State Senator Jean Monestime for not being present in the aftermath of the hurricane.

In 2016, Campbell ran for a new Florida Senate seat created after court-ordered redistricting. She defeated five other candidates in the Democratic primary with 31% of the vote, and won the general election against former state representative Philip Brutus, who ran without party affiliation, 75 to 25%.

In 2013, after her husband's minivan received several tickets issued by red-light cameras, Campbell sponsored legislation opposing traffic-surveillance cameras.

In 2012, Campbell's family business was subject to an investigation by the IRS, with the agency applying liens totaling $145,000.00 on her and her husband after former business partners claimed the couple had scammed them. Campbell denied the existence of the liens to the Tampa Bay Times.

Following the reconfiguration of legislative districts in 2012, Campbell remained in the 108th District, which retained most of the territory that she had represented previously. She was opposed in the primary by Desulme, her 2010 opponent, and Pat Santangelo. Campbell defeated both of them easily, winning 60% of the vote to Desulme's 23% and Santangelo's 17%. She was re-elected in the general election without any opposition.

When incumbent State Representative Ronald Brise accepted a position on the Florida Public Service Commission in 2010, an open seat was created in the 108th District. Campbell ran in the Democratic primary to succeed him, facing Alix Desulme. Following a contentious campaign, she narrowly defeated Desulme by fewer than 400 votes, winning 52% of the vote and advancing to the general election, which she won unopposed.

Campbell was born in Cap-Haïtien, a city in northern Haiti, where she attended the SOD Nursing School, receiving her bachelor's degree in 1981.

Daphne Campbell (born May 19, 1957) is a former Democratic member of the Florida Senate who represented the 38th district, including Miami Beach, North Miami, and other parts of northeastern Miami-Dade County, since 2016. Previously, she served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 108th district from 2010 to 2016. She was defeated by Jason Pizzo in a primary election on August 28, 2018.