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There’s a special House election coming up on April 1 to fill the seat left vacant when Rep. Mike Waltz left Congress to serve as national security advisor to Donald Trump. Democrats are pulling out all the stops, hoping to catch lightning in a bottle and steal a seat in a district that gave Donald Trump a 30-point margin of victory.
Trump’shandpickedsuccessortoWaltzisRepublicanStateSen.RandyFine(R-19thDistrict).HisopponentismathteacherJoshWeil.Weilhasreportedlyraised$10millionfortherace,withthestateDemocratsvowingtoraiseanother$5millionbyelectionday.
Finehasraisedjust$1million,andthatannoyedseveralRepublicansinthestate,includingGovernorRonDeSantis,whoclashedwithFineduringthe2024campaignwhenthestatesenatorflippedhisendorsementfromDeSantistoTrump.
“Weareannoyedbutnotworried,”addedonenationalGOPstrategist.Thenationalpoliticospokeontheconditionhewouldn’tbeidentified.“AnnoyedFinehasn’tdonejacks**tforhimselfandiscountingontheecosystemtobailhimout.”
That“ecosystem”hasnurturedseveralhigh-poweredGOPcandidat
