Black Democrats Declare War on 'Jim Crow' Debbie Wasserman Schultz After She Reveals 2026 Plans
By Sister Toldjah | 4:57 PM on May 22, 2026
Somewhere, Ron DeSantis has got to be sitting back, booted feet propped on his desk, laughing and smoking a cigar at what has been playing out in Florida's 20th Congressional District.
As RedState readers will recall, at the governor's urging, the Sunshine State redrew its congressional map in late April just as the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais was being handed down. Republicans hold 20 of Florida's 28 congressional seats. The new map, if it survives the current court challenges, could potentially net them another four seats in the upcoming midterm elections.
One of the districts impacted was District 25, which longtime Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz currently represents. That district will be far more GOP-friendly under the new map, so Wasserman Schultz had a decision to make. On Friday, she announced it, and it has infuriated black Democrats in the state.
Speculation had been swirling for weeks that Wasserman Schultz would switch districts and run for the open seat in District 20, the one formerly held by disgraced now-former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D). But that district is one of those majority minority ones, and several black Democrats who already declared their intentions to run for it openly warned the former Democrat National Committee Chairwoman off of it.
She didn't listen, and on Friday, she made it official that she intends to run in District 20 - complete with a framed poster of former President Barack Obama in the background, of course:
The announcement did not go over well with some of the candidates who were already in the race, including self-described "organizer" and woketivist Elijah Manley, who point-blank accused her of wanting to steal a seat that he felt should remain in the hands of a black Democrat. He wrote the following statement on X:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is carpetbagging to FL-20, a black opportunity district instead of running in her own. DWS is everything that’s wrong with the Democratic establishment. From insider trading to payday lenders. I look forward to retiring her from public office permanently.
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