{"id":40241,"date":"2026-04-23T20:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/40241\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:25:48","slug":"democratic-gift-hakeem-jeffries-hails-20m-investment-into-flipping-florida-house-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/40241\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Democratic gift’: Hakeem Jeffries hails $20M investment into flipping Florida House seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats are putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to knocking Congressional Republicans out of office.<\/p>\n

During a media conference Thursday, Democratic Leader\u00a0Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>\u00a0of New York said the House Majority PAC<\/a> was putting $20 million into Florida races, in his latest assertion that the so-called \u201cdummymander\u201d that is expected to be proposed by Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a> in next week\u2019s Special Session<\/a>\u00a0could end up putting Democrats in the position of controlling more than eight of the 28 seats Florida has in Congress.<\/p>\n

The spend is part of $272 million<\/a> committed to TV buys nationwide, with more than $9 million targeted to Miami, $6.6 million to Tampa, and $3.9 million to Orlando.<\/p>\n

The \u201c$20 million investment in Florida,\u201d said Jeffries, is \u201cmaking it clear that we\u2019re on offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s our Democratic gift to Ron DeSantis and the Florida Republicans, who he is putting in jeopardy,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

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Jeffries had already said that Mario D\u00edaz-Balart,\u00a0Maria Elvira Salazar,\u00a0Carlos Gim\u00e9nez,\u00a0Kat Cammack,\u00a0Anna Paulina Luna,\u00a0Laurel Lee,\u00a0Cory Mills\u00a0and\u00a0Brian Mast\u00a0were among the targeted legislators.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has already listed four GOP-held seats in Florida as \u201cDistricts in Play<\/a>\u201d: those represented by Lee, Luna, Mills and Salazar. The House Majority PAC previously said in December 2024<\/a>\u00a0it would target Luna and recruit against Gim\u00e9nez, Lee, Mils and Salazar.<\/p>\n

DeSantis seemed unconcerned when presented with the Democratic threat Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease, be my guest. I will pay for you to come down to Florida and campaign. I\u2019ll put you up in the Florida Governor\u2019s mansion. We\u2019ll take you fishing, we\u2019ll do all this stuff,\u201d the Governor quipped in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

The Governor\u2019s Office has yet to present its proposed\u00a0new congressional maps<\/a> as of Thursday afternoon, with the Special Session beginning Monday.<\/p>\n

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Even some of those who aren\u2019t being targeted by Democrats, such as U.S. Reps. Greg Steube\u00a0and\u00a0Daniel Webster<\/a>, are among those who worry an aggressive map will put their seats in play.<\/p>\n

An expected Supreme Court decision in\u00a0Louisiana v. Callais<\/a>, which DeSantis believes will invalidate minority-access districts and necessitate a new map affecting the 2026 cycle, was the stated reason for the Special Session when it was called back in January. But that ruling has not been made.<\/p>\n

The reapportionment legally would have to comply with Fair Districts<\/a> requirements in the constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrats are putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to knocking Congressional Republicans out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[1174,1175,1177,1179,485,24701,24702,1183,1184,1185,1791],"class_list":{"0":"post-40241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hakeem-jeffries","8":"tag-anna-paulina-luna","9":"tag-brian-mast","10":"tag-carlos-gimenez","11":"tag-cory-mills","12":"tag-hakeem-jeffries","13":"tag-house-majority-pac","14":"tag-kat-cammack","15":"tag-laurel-lee","16":"tag-maria-elvira-salazar","17":"tag-mario-diaz-balart","18":"tag-ron-desantis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116455904566110447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}