Report: Florida Democrats Struggle to Find Congressional Candidates

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.

“Democrats have little clue whose names they’ll be marking on their ballots for two of South Florida’s most competitive congressional races,” according to a report from the Miami Herald.

While the Florida Democrat Party declined to comment on their recruitment attempts to the Herald, the report noted that there had been little evidence that showed the Democrats have anyone lined up to run against Republicans in Florida’s Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congressional Districts after two first-time candidates dropped out.

However, while the state is still going through a once-in-a-decade redistricting process, there reportedly has not been a Democrat to register a campaign committee in either one of the districts.

“At the end of the day, redistricting years present clear challenges for recruiting,” Christian Ulvert, a Miami-based Democrat consultant, told the Herald. “But that shouldn’t be an excuse that, during an election-year cycle, we don’t have clear candidates.”

Additionally, while some of the party’s leaders in the state have reportedly “pointed to redistricting as the cause” of not finding candidates, some Democrats believe the party leaders are hoping that former members of Congress will run fo... (Read more)

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