The canvass runs from 10 a.m. to noon.
State Sen. Brian Nathan won his seat by 408 votes. He doesn’t need a briefing on why door-knocking matters.
The Tampa Democrat will join U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried Saturday morning for a volunteer canvass launching from Bobby Hicks Park in South Tampa, part of the party’s push to organize early ahead of the Midterms.
The three will deliver remarks from 10:10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on what the party says are the issues that matter most to Floridians: lowering costs, ending corruption and “building a Florida where all have an opportunity to thrive.” Volunteers will then fan out to knock doors in surrounding neighborhoods until noon.
The location is friendly ground. Nathan flipped Senate District 14 in a March Special Election, taking the seat Lt. Gov. Jay Collins vacated when he joined the Gov. Ron DeSantis administration.
The union leader and Navy veteran edged Republican Josie Tomkow by less than half a percentage point in a district where Republicans hold a registration advantage of more than 20,000 voters — and he was outspent doing it, with a political committee putting more than $3 million behind Tomkow. Democrats have treated the win as proof of concept for the ground-first approach on display Saturday.
Nathan will need that support again soon. Tomkow pledged a November rematch the night she conceded.
Castor is facing high stakes this cycle as well. The Tampa Democrat has held Florida’s 14th Congressional District since 2007 and is seeking another term in a seat that had been reliably blue. But that’s changing this cycle, with Republicans eyeing a flip under the new cartography.
The canvass runs from 10 a.m. to noon at Bobby Hicks Park, 4201 W. Mango Ave. Members of the press must RSVP to [email protected].
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Ed. note: This story was drafted with assistance from AI. Editorial judgment, sourcing, and final review were performed by Peter Schorsch and the Florida Politics editorial team.
