LOL! AOC just lost another comrade. Another Dem seat just flipped to the GOP in Cali. It happened this morning. 
@Cyber Liberty Here is the one I savored. I hated that bitch!
Florida's 27th District
Democrats assumed that this South Florida seat would be theirs indefinitely when Donna Shalala, the former Clinton-era health secretary, flipped it in the midterms. Going into 2020, the DCCC didn’t even place Shalala in its “Frontline†program for endangered incumbents, and the district saw hardly any outside spending on TV.
But Republican Maria Elvira Salazar, a former Telemundo anchor, ultimately beat Shalala by nearly 3 points in a rematch of their 2018 race. In a post-election debriefing, Shalala said the four polls conducted by her campaign and others were off, and she attributed the GOP’s strength to the potency of the socialism attacks among the Cuban population in Miami.
Internal Democratic data suggests Trump massively overperformed and only lost the seat by a few points in 2020 — part of a turnaround in South Florida that made the state one of only a few where Trump actually ran stronger than in 2016.
Florida's 26th District
A more shocking Trump surge played out in a neighboring district, where freshman Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell lost to Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez. Both parties spent millions in the pricey Miami media market, but Democrats felt certain the president would be a drag on Giménez, since he lost this seat by 16 points in 2016.
Yet, as outgoing DCCC Chair Cheri Bustos shared in a call with members this week, Democratic data indicates Trump actually carried this seat by about 5 points in 2020 — a 21-point improvement. Socialism hits in GOP attack ads likely hurt Mucarsel-Powell here, as did attempts to tie her to a Ukrainian "warlord."
