{"id":1223435,"date":"2022-01-18T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223435"},"modified":"2022-01-18T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:22:29","slug":"report-florida-democrats-struggle-to-find-congressional-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-florida-democrats-struggle-to-find-congressional-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Florida Democrats Struggle to Find Congressional Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-florida-democrats-struggle-to-find-congressional-candidates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2016\/03\/GettyImages-515700970.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrats are struggling to find candidates willing to run for Congress in Florida, as the August primary is only months away, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats have little clue whose names they\u2019ll be marking on their ballots for two of South Florida\u2019s most competitive congressional races,\u201d&nbsp;according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/article257331087.html\">report<\/a> from the&nbsp;<em>Miami Herald.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While the&nbsp;Florida Democrat Party declined to comment on their&nbsp;recruitment attempts to the <em>Herald<\/em>, the report noted that there had been little evidence that showed the Democrats have anyone lined up to run against Republicans in Florida\u2019s Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congressional Districts after two&nbsp;first-time candidates dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>However, while the state is still going through a once-in-a-decade redistricting process, there reportedly has not been a&nbsp;Democrat to&nbsp;register a campaign committee in either one of the districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, redistricting years present clear challenges for recruiting,\u201d&nbsp;Christian Ulvert, a&nbsp;Miami-based Democrat consultant, told the&nbsp;<em>Herald.<\/em> \u201cBut that shouldn\u2019t be an excuse that, during an election-year cycle, we don\u2019t have clear candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, while some of the party\u2019s leaders in the state have reportedly \u201cpointed to redistricting as the cause\u201d of not finding candidates, some Democrats believe the&nbsp;party leaders are hoping that&nbsp;former members of Congress will run for the seats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point now, and really since November, we\u2019ve had [map] drafts from both chambers to give an idea\u2026Any argument that it\u2019s about waiting for the new lines, I think, rings a little hollow,\u201d said&nbsp;Matt Isbell, a redistricting expert working with the Democrat-aligned People Over Profits, to the&nbsp;<em>Herald.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Herald&nbsp;<\/em>explained the Republican&nbsp;advantages:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The slow pace of Democratic recruitment offers an additional boost to the Republican incumbents in a year where the national political environment is already expected to favor the GOP. The trend could prove even more acute in South Florida, where Democrats suffered blistering defeats in both federal and state races in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>First, there are the low expectations for Democrats nationally. The incumbent president\u2019s party traditionally loses seats in the midterm election, which means most of the national party\u2019s resources will go toward defending seats in other states rather than flipping GOP-held seats in a state that\u2019s trended toward Republicans in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf they have somebody in mind but they just haven\u2019t announced yet for whatever reason, that\u2019s one thing.&nbsp;If there\u2019s no candidate because the national committees haven\u2019t found a candidate yet, you\u2019re getting close to the point of surrender,\u201d&nbsp;explained&nbsp;Alex Conant, a Washington-based Republican&nbsp;consultant.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are struggling to find candidates willing to run for Congress in Florida, as the August primary is only months away, according to a report. \u201cDemocrats have little clue whose &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}