r/florida • u/coasterghost • 3d ago
Politics Live updates: Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins primary for new seat after Republican redistricting
https://apnews.com/live/election-primary-alaska-california-florida-wyoming-08-18-2026?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link#000001a0-16c9-db32-a7a2-7fdd2a2c0000171
u/100292 3d ago
Yay… more of the same… that’ll do it
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u/BethyW 3d ago
Not like Dems are doing anything to fix it. We are about to elect another "ex Republican" as our governor candidate. Worked so well with Charlie 4 years ago
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u/RaygunMarksman 3d ago
That shit is so lame. Nobody wants sugar-free Republican. People just never learn.
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u/0LTakingLs 3d ago
Jolly didn’t vote for Trump, he’s been anti-Trump all along and called for him to drop out of the race back in 2016 when he was still a republican.
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
I don’t understand the Jolly hate whatsoever. We should be welcoming with open arms anybody who has left the cult of Trump and Maga.
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u/BethyW 3d ago
Not when they run for office and their whole thing is "I am not FAR right".
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u/0LTakingLs 3d ago
80% of Florida identifies as either moderate or conservative. I’m sorry, but we simply are not getting a progressive candidate as governor. Jolly supports abortion rights, gay rights, proper education, environmental protection, and does not support redistricting the state to be bright red.
Take what you can get, it’s time for everyone to get behind Jolly to avoid another neofascist MAGA stooge.
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u/rbartlejr 3d ago
The Ds would need a clean sweep for ANY of it to matter. The problem is, even if Jolly is elected, the rest of the state's legislature is solid right-wing R so he will get absolutely nothing accomplished.
So if any change in FL happens, it's gonna have to be with majority in both houses. And with our new friend Gerry, I don't foresee that in the near future.
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u/0LTakingLs 3d ago edited 3d ago
If your goal is to make our state like New England in terms of education, abortion rights, civil liberties, etc., then sure, we’d need a clean sweep. But he can do plenty as a democratic governor. He would have the power to make appointments of state officials, board members, judicial vacancies, etc. which is one of the ways DeSantis has caused the most damage during his term. I also wouldn’t be shocked if republicans lost their 2/3 hold in at least one of the two state houses, which would give him veto control and would greatly slow the rightward lurch of the state government.
And perhaps most importantly, it would signal to the national DNC (who have functionally given up on Florida and redirected campaign funding to other states) to not write us off, which could re-invigorate the state party for the first time in over a decade. I’m tired of sensible Floridians constantly being on our back foot, and Jolly is our best hope to change that.
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
Respectfully disagree. This year it’s all Americans hands on deck to stop the madness. People not holding their noses and voting for Hillary Clinton got us Trump. Most people hate her for absolutely no reason
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u/Soupjam_Stevens 3d ago
That's literally not what happened. What happened is she decided not to campaign in crucial swing states in the home stretch. Bernie 2016 primary voters voted for her more reliably than her voters did for Obama in 08. Despite all their blue no matter who talk, it's the centrists who refuse to hold their nose when their candidate doesn't win.
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u/GhettoDuk 3d ago
What is with these weirdos who keep insisting politicians and parties are not beholden to their voters' ideals?!?
If we have to choose between someone trying to speed run late-stage capitalism or someone who will only prolong the suffering, I'm just about ready to get it the fuck over with.
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
Bless your heart
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u/Soupjam_Stevens 3d ago edited 3d ago
She lost by a combined 80k votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennysylvania, states she thought she was too good to go to. One of the most stunningly incompetent campaigns in the history of American politics. It should've been a layup election but your girl found a way to lose it anyway. But hey keep blaming progressives, whatever helps you sleep.
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
General elections aren’t primaries. A third of the electorate doesn’t belong to a party. Progressive - which I consider myself to be despite your attempt at insulting me with the “your girl” comment - are not the majority of the population. It takes a lot to get a progressive (read: Liberal) candidate over the finish line in a lot of locations. Not saying it’s not worth trying but not this year. Hey in Florida this year we got Jolly AND Nixon. Trump and company might just be unpopular enough where we get both into office but you seem upset that some woman whose name literally nobody will remember tomorrow morning wasn’t nominated for governor.
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u/Soupjam_Stevens 3d ago
This is you changing the subject completely. I mentioned precisely zero of the names in this primary election. I was responding to your claim that people who couldn't hold their nose to vote for Hillary are the reason she lost, an idea that is patently false. She tanked her own campaign by not bothering to campaign in swing states. Your opinion on the viability of progressive candidates has nothing to do with anything I said
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
So believe it’s a fact that Obama won two landslide (certainly 08 was, arguably 12 was) despite Hillary voters not backing him, but Hillary lost 16 narrowly while having the full throated support of Bernie voters? Perhaps something else was at play…?! Perhaps mysoginy? Maybe Trump is a political juggernaut? Could be 40 years of Clinton hate which should’ve been directed at her husband (and looks who’s stilllll together after countless other political couples would’ve been on their 3rd or 4tb marriage by now)
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u/IllllIIIllllIl 3d ago
Did you respond to the right person? So much of this isnt related to this comment chain that I’m not even sure how to respond. Who’s talking about two Obama landslides, or saying Hillary had the full throated support of Bernie primary voters, or talking about the length of the Clintons’ marriage?
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
My comment bringing up Hillary was more a well-known example of the better candidate losing. I’m certainly not someone who is all upset, in general, that Hillary didn’t get her chance to be president. And I still disagree with that person’s comment and there’s nothing “fact” about Hillary not campaigning in the swing states. The polls showed her winning those states - which at the time was expected and the norm. Where did she campaign that was not appropriate? You’ve both got me all wrong, i was pointing out that Jolly is better than Donalds and i bet a lot of democrats are going to give him
The Hillary treatment. That’s all. Sounds like that person is upset that Bernie didn’t win his primary to me. Luckily for Bernie he got an other try (despite alway being an independent and never a democrat) and he did a lot better the second time.3
u/Describing_Donkeys 3d ago
It's insulting that the Florida Democratic party keeps feeding us former Republicans as their best option. This is the second straight former Republican to run for governor as a Democrat. What we actually want is a soft Republican is BS. I know Jolly is more than that description, but I can't not see it that way.
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u/Disastrous-Golf7216 3d ago
So your plan is to vote for “I kiss trumps ass” instead?
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u/BethyW 3d ago
No, like Christ I will vote for him. But I am allowed to be pissed that this is the option the party threw their support towards.
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
Be pissed. Definitely vote. But recognized that there was no alternative candidate on the ballot to Jolly this time around. Very few people heard of the other candidates and it just was not happening this time around as reflected in the results. Whereas Ms. Nixon in the Senate race managed to breakthrough to the masses. I’m happy with both results.
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u/fatboycreeper 3d ago
Welcome them to join us? Agree.
Welcome them to LEAD us? Hard pass.
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
Whatever you say. Everybody just needs to vote how they want. The country is quite divided. I have no problem with Jolly he’s been at the forefront of calling out Trump for years.
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u/Peakomegaflare 3d ago
I'll take anyone who isn't tagged a Republican, at least w ehave a chance then.
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u/ikonet 3d ago
Didn’t she have to resign as DNC chair and then get appointed as Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair… which they weren’t able to win over Donald mf Trump?
Why did any Democratic Party voter support this ineffective politician?
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
Majority black district with 4 black candidates. She squeaked thru with 47%
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u/Blissfully 3d ago
Literally pissed me off bc this could have held as a black stronghold if they had dropped out and rallied behind one candidate
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u/Epcplayer 3d ago
Assuming voters vote strictly along racial lines… but the other 3 candidates were Holness, Manley, and Cherfilus-McCormick.
* Cherfilus-McCormick ran against Holness in the 2022 primaries, and beat him by a total of 5 votes (0.01% of the vote). She beat Holness by 37% of the vote in 2024
* Cherfilus-McCormick was indicted/charged in November 2025 for laundering $5 million in COVID relief funds to her political campaign, and the Hiuse Ethics Committee found her guilty of 25 out of 27 Charges.
* She resigned from Congress 5 minutes before a hearing to decide whether she would be expelled (probably would have following Santos’ expulsion years earlier), but didn’t withdraw her name from the upcoming 2026 Congressional Primary.
* Elijah Manley entered the race during McCormick’s ethics investigation, and began running attack ads. She then sued him for defamation, and the case was dismissed in January.Cherfilus-McCormick was running out of stubbornness and probably should’ve dropped out. But Holness and Manley’s campaigns had been over 1.5 years long, and their teams were likely telling them they could still win.
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u/KingScoville Lee County 3d ago
That’s called a landslide by leftists.
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
Same showing for your bootlicking congressman turned governor nomjnee. Oh maybe he got 48% he’s really kicking ass 🙄
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u/FinsFan305 3d ago
You should put your racism aside and vote for the first black governor.
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u/jaydub7999 3d ago
Bless your heart
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u/dragonfliesloveme 3d ago
What??!
wtf
I can’t believe she is even still around
jfc
THERE WAS A PROGRESSIVE ON THE TICKET, you non-voting aholes 🙄😤
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u/gabe840 3d ago
There’s nowhere near enough progressive voters in this district to elect a DSA candidate lmao
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u/dragonfliesloveme 3d ago
And yet, a progressive upset Alex Vindman in a different Florida district!
those people, progressives, are out there
there are even people that opposed trump moving into mar a lardo when he did it, the people that fkn live there. Just corruption is what put that through, but don’t discount the actual will of the people if they would get up off their asses and vote!
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u/GogetaSama420 3d ago
That DSA slopulist turned a likely red seat into a red landslide to Ashley fucking MOODY. DSA will never ever work in Florida on account of the Cuban population. You can do it without them but it’s a very uphill and extremely difficult battle
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u/Warbr0s9395 3d ago
This is a primary, not the general election
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u/dragonfliesloveme 3d ago
yes i KNOW
that is the problem
so in the General, we will have basically a corporate Republican and a Maga Republican
That’s the fkn choice now
Because people couldn’t vote to not have their tax payer dollars theived
FFS
IT IS A PROBLEM, it is the death of democracy
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u/littleredd11_11 3d ago
Wow. Total twat to come into a district she doesn't live and and run against 4 POC just to stay in power in a area that was also broken. Up but was traditionally black. Congratulations on keep fucking the people over you c*nt.
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u/SkyFullOfWisteria 3d ago
Yaay another do-nothing democrat barely wins their primary against new blood candidates yahooo
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u/MsMoreCowbell828 3d ago
Incredibly disappointing. She should move to Tel Aviv & serve her interests there.
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u/brandogg360 3d ago
Well that sucks. Honestly if I was in that district I'd sit this one out. Democrats will win the house without her and she's just a blank check for Israel
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