The district’s incumbent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, of Parkland, would now be located in District 22. He told Andrew Soleander of Axios that 50% of current FL-23 voters now reside in District 25, and that it was a \u201ctoss-up\u201d as to which district he\u2019d run in.<\/p>\n
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz addresses a virtual audience during his virtual town hall on May 21, 2025<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m running for reelection. I\u2019ll figure out what district I\u2019m going to run in, I think there\u2019s three districts I could choose,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Moskowitz\u2019s Democratic primary opponent, Oliver Larkin, has been campaigning for ten months in FL-23, and lives in what would become FL-25. He decried the partisan motives of DeSantis\u2019s redistricting plan and called it \u201cchaos.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aThe fact that Ron DeSantis released these maps in an exclusive to Fox News \u2014 color coded, like \u2018We think this is going to be a Republican district, we think this is going to be a democratic district now…\u2019 That seems like a bit of a tell, right?\u201d Larkin said.<\/p>\n
DeSantis did, in fact, release the maps to Fox News before giving it to the Florida Legislature for a special session that began Tuesday to vote on redistricting. The Republican-dominated Legislature is expected to approve the maps later this week.<\/p>\n
The new map, if approved, could flip four districts, changing the current 20-8 Republican-Democrat makeup of Florida\u2019s delegation to 24-4.<\/p>\n
FL-25 and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s future<\/p>\n
FL-25 is currently represented by Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was first elected to Congress in 1992. She lives in Weston, which would no longer fall within FL-25\u2019s boundaries. She slammed DeSantis for skirting Florida\u2019s Fair Districts amendment, which 63% of statewide voters approved in 2010. <\/p>\n
The 2010 amendment said that districts \u201cshall not be drawn to deny racial or language minorities the equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect representatives of their choice,\u201d and also forbids Florida from drawing lines to \u201cfavor or disfavor\u201d a specific political party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis clear effort to steal more seats for Republicans shows [DeSantis\u2019] total contempt for Florida voters, who voted two-to-one in favor of a ban on partisan gerrymandering in our Constitution. This nakedly partisan scheme breaks state law,\u201d said Wasserman Schultz.<\/p>\n
FL-23’s crowded Republican primary<\/p>\n
While the maps favor Republicans statewide, the crowded Republican primary in FL-23 would be significantly impacted. Former Republican State Legislator George Moraitis said, if the maps are passed, he\u2019ll immediately begin campaigning in FL-25. That includes campaigning in Miami Beach.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aWe were pretty heavily concentrated on Boca and East Broward County. And now we’re gonna be a little further south in Broward and obviously Miami Beach. So that’ll be the biggest challenge for us now is introducing ourselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Moraitis said the current construction of FL-23 and the proposed FL-25 are both \u201cwinnable configurations\u201d for a Republican.<\/p>\n
Scott Singer, the Republican former mayor of Boca Raton, has raised more than $1.3 million to fund his campaign in FL-23. He did not respond to WLRN\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s 23rd congressional district, which includes parts of northern Broward and Boca Raton, was the most competitive in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-250678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}