embattled Republican Rep. Cory Mills<\/a>. The third-term Mills \u2013 a top campaign target for Democrats this year \u2013 is under a House ethics committee investigation related to allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations.\n <\/p>\n\n He has repeatedly denied the allegations against him. Mills recently drew a Republican primary challenger, former Orlando-area news anchor Ryan Elijah.\n <\/p>\n
\n Rep. Kathy Castor, a 10-term incumbent, currently represents both Tampa and St. Petersburg, cities on either side of Tampa Bay.\n <\/p>\n
\n The DeSantis plan breaks up Castor\u2019s 14th District. It removes St. Petersburg and shifts much of it into the 16th District now held by GOP Rep. Vern Buchanan, who is retiring from Congress at the end of this term.\n <\/p>\n
\n And it splits Tampa into three, sending northern parts of the city into two districts now held by Republican incumbents, Reps. Laurel Lee and Gus Bilirakis. That could pose some risk to those GOP lawmakers as they take in more Democratic voters into their revamped districts. Lee\u2019s 15th District was already among those targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee\u2019s \u201cDistricts in Play\u201d project.\n <\/p>\n
\n Another Democratic target, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, saw her 13th District, which includes Clearwater, grow a shade redder in the proposed redraw. It likely would remain in Republican control if the map survives the expected legal challenges, according to Sabato\u2019s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter produced by the University of Virginia\u2019s Center for Politics.\n <\/p>\n
\n The map that was in place for the 2024 election gives Democrats the advantage in five southeast Florida districts; the new map reduces that number to three.\n <\/p>\n
\n Under the new map, two South Florida Democrats, Reps. Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, would be left without obvious districts to run in.\n <\/p>\n
\n Moskowitz\u2019s 23rd District remains Democratic, but moves farther north, to cover much of the territory now represented by Rep. Lois Frankel. Moskowitz\u2019s current district would cease to exist in its current form, meaning he\u2019ll likely have to decide between challenging Frankel and running in one of the new, more Republican-leaning districts.\n <\/p>\n
\n He recently told CNN\u2019s Manu Raju that there are \u201cthree seats I could potentially run in. And so we\u2019re analyzing it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Wasserman Schultz\u2019s 25th District currently is Democratic and includes a swath of Broward County from the Atlantic coast into slightly inland cities, such as Pembroke Pines and Miramar. The DeSantis map blows it apart, distributing its pieces among four other districts.\n <\/p>\n
\n A newly configured 25th District created by DeSantis\u2019 team hugs the coastline and becomes more Republican-friendly. The new lines transform the district from one that supported Democrat Kamala Harris by more than 5 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election to one that would have backed President Donald Trump by more than 9 points, according to Sabato\u2019s analysis.\n <\/p>\n
\n Wasserman Schultz might have even fewer options than Moskowitz.\n <\/p>\n
\n She could choose to run in one of the more Republican seats, perhaps against Moskowitz, or in the reconfigured 20th District. That\u2019s a majority-minority district, much of which was represented by Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who recently resigned<\/a> from Congress.\n <\/p>\n\n Another potentially vulnerable Republican incumbent on Democrats\u2019 target list, Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, saw the lines of her 27th District covering parts of Miami virtually unchanged.\n <\/p>\n
\n The heavily Hispanic district went for Trump by more than 14 points in 2024, but the president\u2019s popularity has declined since his return to the White House, including among Latino voters. The race could be one of the state\u2019s most closely watched contests this November.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a map he designed to give Republicans an edge in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-258912","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\/258912","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=258912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}