Florida Democrats will run candidates in all state legislative races for first time in three decades
By
Jack Birle
June 14, 2024 6:34 pm
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The Florida Democratic Party announced Friday that they have fielded a candidate for each of the 140 state House and state Senate seats up for election in November, as they aim to stop Florida from its increasingly rightward shift.
All 120 state House seats and 20 state Senate seats up for grabs in November will have a Democratic candidate on the ballot for the first time in nearly three decades, according to the party. Republicans currently have a supermajority in both chambers of the Sunshine State’s legislature and have maintained control of both chambers since the 1990s.
“Democrats made history in Florida today,” Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried said in a statement on Friday. “This is unprecedented. Since control of Florida flipped in the mid-90s, no party has contested every seat in both chambers of the legislature. For the first time in at least 30 years, Florida Democrats are contesting every congressional and legislative race in Florida.”
While Democrats are not expected to come close to flipping either chamber in November, Fried contends that the party has “momentum” since being clobbered in the 2022 election.
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