Florida appears ready to move forward with congressional redistricting after a warning from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries that Republicans will end up the losers.
“Our message to Florida Republicans is ‘F’ around and find out,” he said, according toFox News, calling the potential to redraw lines on the eight Democratic districts to favor the GOP a “DeSantis dummy-mander.”
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shrugged off the challenge.
“Please. Be my guest. I will pay for you to come down to Florida to campaign,” DeSantis said. “I’ll put you up in the Florida governor’s mansion. We will take you fishing.”
“There’s nothing that could be better for Republicans in Florida than to see Jeffries everywhere around this state.”
“Our message to Florida Republicans is F around and find out. If they go down the road of a DeSantis dummy-mander … the electoral tide is turning in Florida,” Jeffries said.
Whatever Florida does has taken on new importance after Virginia voters approved new district lines that, based on party enrollment, would give Democrats up to 10 seats on the House and Republicans only one instead of the 6-5 party split in which Democrats have the higher number.
President Donald Trump last year called upon states to redrawn lines so Republicans would not lose control of the House in the upcoming midterm elections. That kicked off a series of state actions in which both parties tried to expand the number of seats likely to go their way.
Florida is up next, with a special session on tap for next week, according toPolitico.
“This is honestly an all-hands-on-deck moment, because if you lose the House, you’re going to bring, essentially, the agenda to a grinding halt,” Florida-based GOP strategist Ford O’Connell said, adding that if the term-limited governor brings the GOP additional seats, “it could give rebirth to his political career.”
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