Republicans pressure Ron DeSantis to redistrict in Florida
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned Republicans on Wednesday that efforts to redraw the Florida congressional map will backfire on the GOP. Speaking to reporters in Washington,
Chairman Evan Power didn’t hold back this week after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries signaled that Florida is a primary target in a looming national battle over redistricting. The verbal fireworks began when Jeffries reportedly suggested a high-stakes effort to overhaul Florida’s congressional maps.
The Republican Party is looking to redistrict Florida next, after Virginia’s new congressional map, which gives Democrats a 10-1 advantage in the House, passed in a statewide referendum on Tuesday. The election results mark a devastating loss for Republicans,
Alex Alvarado wrote in an analysis for the Civic Data and Research Institute that, according to modeling, aggressive redistricting would raise the number of competitive seats in Florida from four to seven, but wouldn’t give Republicans any net gain.
Florida’s Republican leadership is sounding the alarm over a new redistricting referendum in Virginia, calling the move a calculated effort by Democrats to manipulate congressional boundaries. Evan Power,
Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins denied rumors he is suspending his campaign for governor, launching new attacks against GOP front-runner Byron Donalds.
Balart, Carlos Giménez, Laurel Lee, Anna Paulina Luna, Cory Mills, Brian Mast and Maria Elvira Salazar as potential targets.
A Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate faces backlash after a video shows him telling a Black voter he “should be lynched.”
Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Mills Bale Dalton, the Democrat running in Florida’s 7th Congressional District in north Central Florida against GOP
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