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| Florida Democrats Struggle to Find Congressional Candidates | |
| 2022-01-20 | |
While the Florida Democrat Party declined to comment on their recruitment attempts to the Herald, the report noted that there had been little evidence that showed the Democrats have anyone lined up to run against Republicans in Florida’s Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congressional Districts after two first-time candidates dropped out. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... while the state is still going through a once-in-a-decade redistricting process, there reportedly has not been a Democrat to register a campaign committee in either one of the districts. "At the end of the day, redistricting years present clear challenges for recruiting," Christian Ulvert, a Miami-based Democrat consultant, told the Herald. "But that shouldn’t be an excuse that, during an election-year cycle, we don’t have clear candidates." Additionally, while some of the party’s leaders in the state have reportedly "pointed to redistricting as the cause" of not finding candidates, some Democrats believe the party leaders are hoping that former members of Congress will run for the seats. "At this point now, and really since November, we’ve had [map] drafts from both chambers to give an idea...Any argument that it’s about waiting for the new lines, I think, rings a little hollow," said Matt Isbell, a redistricting expert working with the Democrat-aligned People Over Profits, to the Herald. | |
| Posted by:Fred |