{"id":259927,"date":"2026-05-05T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:51:08","slug":"moskowitz-signals-plan-to-run-in-new-25th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259927\/","title":{"rendered":"Moskowitz signals plan to run in new 25th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz is preparing to run for reelection in a new congressional district that runs along the coast in South Florida \u2014 even though it was crafted by Republicans to thwart his return to Congress.<\/p>\n

If the courts allow the Republican redistricting plan to go into effect, a Moskowitz spokesperson said the Democratic congressman \u201cintends to run where the majority of his constituents reside, which under the new configuration would be Congressional District 25.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new 25th Congressional District, which takes parts of eastern Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, has a Republican tilt. President Donald Trump won the territory in 2024. And Republican candidates have rushed to stake their claims in the new district.<\/p>\n

But an outside analysis of the district suggests the 25th District won\u2019t be a cakewalk for the winner of the Aug. 18 Republican primary. It was rated as a \u201ctoss up\u201d this week by Sabato\u2019s Crystal Ball<\/a> at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.<\/p>\n

And much of the territory in the new district comes from communities that Moskowitz has represented since he was first elected to Congress in 2022.<\/p>\n

Big picture<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s new congressional districts were crafted by Gov. Ron DeSantis after President Donald Trump demanded states change their maps to get more Republicans and fewer Democrats elected.<\/p>\n

The map, passed April 29 by the Republican-controlled state Legislature and signed into law Monday by DeSantis, scrambles districts in South Florida, especially in Broward and Palm Beach counties.<\/p>\n

Instead of five Democratic districts in South Florida, the new map has three districts that are likely to elect Democrats in November.<\/p>\n

Changes made by the Republican map include placing Moskowitz\u2019 Parkland home and the Weston home of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the same congressional district \u2014 and adding Republican territory in an area that stretches west to Marco Island and the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

The overall plan creates 24 Republican-leaning Florida districts and four Democratic districts, down from the current 20-8 split.<\/p>\n

The unusual mid-decade redistricting is highly controversial, and several lawsuits have been filed since its enactment on Monday to prevent it from going into effect. The Fair Districts Amendments added to the Florida Constitution by voters in 2010 prohibit partisan gerrymandering, but DeSantis wants all the fair district provisions overturned. The governor\u2019s general counsel outlined that argument<\/a> when he sent the DeSantis map plan to the Legislature on April 27.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongressman Moskowitz strongly supports the Fair Districts provisions in the Florida Constitution and believes the maps approved by the Legislature and Governor violate those standards,\u201d the spokesperson said via text. \u201cIf the courts strike them down, he will run in the district he currently represents.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his first analysis of the new districts, The Cook Political Report\u2019s Dave Wasserman, one of the nation\u2019s foremost experts on congressional districts, wrote that the plan \u201cseriously endangers\u201d Moskowitz, Wasserman Schultz, and U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor from Tampa Bay and Darren Soto from Central Florida. But, he added, that \u201cgiven the prevailing winds of 2026, not all of those potential gains \u2014 nor the safety of several existing GOP incumbents \u2014 would be assured this November.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in a statement that Moskowitz wouldn\u2019t succeed. \u201cRunning for reelection in a Trump seat is a strange way to announce you\u2019re ending your political career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wasserman Schultz said on Friday she plans to run for reelection, but she has not said what district she\u2019ll be running in.<\/p>\n

25th District<\/p>\n

The new map created a new 25th Congressional District by stringing together coastal communities from Delray Beach south to Miami Beach. Detailed statistical tables posted by the Florida Senate\u2019s professional staff show that he mathematical formulas used by redistricting experts and recognized by courts indicate it is the least compact congressional district in the state.<\/p>\n

As soon as the Legislature passed the map, and before DeSantis signed it into law, several Republicans who had already been running for Congress, announced they would run in the new 25th District.<\/p>\n

They include the three leading candidates who had announced earlier they were running for the Republican nomination for Congress in the former 23rd District, which Moskowitz currently represents.<\/p>\n

Republicans who say they\u2019re in are Joe Kaufman, the party\u2019s unsuccessful 2024 nominee in the 23rd District, former state Rep. George Moraitis of Fort Lauderdale and former Mayor Scott Singer of Boca Raton.<\/p>\n

Singer officially entered the race in December, before the other two, and had a strong fundraising quarter in the first three months of the year. His Federal Election Commission filing showed $1.2 million in his campaign account on March 31, a figure bolstered by $424,000 of his own money he lent to his campaign.<\/p>\n

Moraitis had $483,925 in cash. He also had $111,100 in debt, which is money he lent to his campaign.<\/p>\n

Kaufman had $470,261 in his campaign account and reported debts of $89,863.<\/p>\n

Democrat Moskowitz \u2014 a former state representative, Parkland city commissioner, Broward County commissioner and state emergency management director \u2014 reported $1.2 million in cash, and had $40,700 in debt from a loan he made to his first campaign in 2022.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew congressional district boundaries proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday, April 27, 2026, would make major changes in South Florida before the midterm elections. (Florida Senate map\/courtesy)
\nPolitical winds<\/p>\n

Voters in the territory that makes up the new 25th District favored President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n

Data analyzed by the Crystal Ball and Florida Democratic data analyst Matthew Isbell show that Trump won the newly crafted 25th District by slightly more than 9 percentage points in 2024, with 54% for Trump and 45% for Harris.<\/p>\n

But it voted 52% to 47% for Democrat Joe Biden over Trump in 2020.<\/p>\n

Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato\u2019s Crystal Ball at the Center for Politics, said Moskowitz would be a strong candidate for the Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think Moskowitz in particular would make a lot of sense for FL-25, and it\u2019s probably the most purely competitive seat among those that were changed. The Trump +9 topline very likely overstates how Republican it will be in 2026,\u201d Kondik said via email.<\/p>\n

In his initial analysis of the redistricting, Isbell wrote on Substack<\/a> that the \u201cstrongest chance for Democrats to hold a gerrymandered seat is definitely the 25th. This district voted for Trump by 9% but also backed Biden by 5% in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isbell said it is \u201calmost surely the most heavily Jewish district in the state,\u201d and he argued that Moskowitz \u201ccan likely win back over many of the Jewish voters who swung to the right in the 2024 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moskowitz, who is Jewish, is a champion of Israel. Kaufman and Singer are also Jewish.<\/p>\n

As the candidates refocus, they\u2019re highlighting any potential advantages, such as Moskowitz already representing much of the new 25th District.<\/p>\n

Singer\u2019s campaign has tweaked the way it describes him.<\/p>\n

When he initially announced his candidacy for the old 23rd District in December, the campaign described him as \u201cBorn in South Florida and raised in Fort Lauderdale.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, when Singer announced an endorsement from U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, a Miami-Dade County Republican, the campaign said, \u201cScott was born in Miami Beach, raised in Fort Lauderdale, and currently resides in Boca Raton.\u201d<\/p>\n

Political writer Anthony Man can be reached at aman@sunsentinel.com and can be found @browardpolitics on Bluesky, Threads, Facebook and Mastodon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz is preparing to run for reelection in a new congressional district that runs along…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3337,506,8228,2715,28,30,29,249,16433,686,114,266,1642,373,5741,5742,115,557,99,109],"class_list":["post-259927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-boca-raton","tag-broward-county","tag-delray-beach","tag-elections","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-hallandale","tag-hollywood","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-miami-beach","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-national-news","tag-national-politics","tag-news","tag-palm-beach-county","tag-politics","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259927","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=259927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}