USA – Election: Democrats face serious problems in Florida

Political headaches are growing for Democrats in Florida as lawmakers retire, recruitment challenges, and escalating controversy over re-run constituencies exacerbate the party’s problems in an already difficult year of midterm elections. political newspaper “The Hill”.

The party’s hopes for the approval of the maps of the new electoral landscape proposed by the Republican-controlled state Senate, with which the Democrats were largely pleased, have now vanished into general uncertainty.

The move comes after Republican Gov. Ron DeSadis’s unusual move to table his own constituency plan, which drastically restores the number of constituencies the Democrats should control.

Democrats are also facing the retirement of MP Stephanie Murphy, as well as the imminent absence of MPs Charlie Christ and Val Demings, who are avoiding re-election this year for the two seats in the House of Representatives, respectively. position of governor, but also a seat in the Senate.

There are also questions about which Democrats will face Republican lawmakers Maria Salasar and Carlos Gimenez for two South Florida House of Representatives seats in the state, which are among the most competitive in the state and passed into the hands of Republicans in 2020.

All in all, the challenges are difficult for Democrats, who are already facing historical and political upheaval in their quest to maintain their marginal majority in the House of Representatives.

Republicans will have to win just five seats in the November midterm elections to win a majority in the US House of Representatives.

“This is a headache,” said Thomas Kennedy, a member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Florida. “The process has evolved, making the situation as difficult as possible,” he said.

SOURCE: AMPE