If the Republicans can’t hear the alarm bells now, they were born without ears. A special election in Florida District 87, won by Republicans in 2024 by 20 points, resulted in the seat being flipped last night by Democrat Emily Gregory, 51.2 – 48.8.
This is considered a deep-red district.
And it contains Mar-a-Lago, the President’s residence.
It’s certainly true that a President doesn’t have to live in a district with endless fidelity to them, but we’re talking Florida, where the Democratic Party has demonstrated little recent competency, and the district is Republican.
It appears the Republicans are now despised by Floridians.
Can the Democrats correct their ideological errors and take one of the most important, electorally speaking, States in the Union? Given DNC Chairman Ken Martin’s decision to hide their post-mortem, probably not.
