{"id":289194,"date":"2026-05-29T18:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289194\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:34:27","slug":"democrats-pile-into-northeast-florida-house-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289194\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats pile into Northeast Florida House races"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats in Northeast Florida are opening campaign accounts for House races ahead of qualifying week, which runs June 8-12.<\/p>\n

Some of the new candidacies will create crowded Primaries for seats Democrats are almost certain to win.<\/p>\n

Others are bids for more unlikely pickups currently held by Republicans, and likely will lead to closed elections in August and large resource gaps between Democratic insurgents and entrenched GOP incumbents in November.<\/p>\n

In House District 11, House Speaker-designate Sam Garrison<\/a> initially had a speed bump Primary opponent in underfunded Antoinette Harmon. But Democrat Marci Marie White<\/a> is also running now. Garrison has more than $3.3 million cash on hand between his campaign account and the \u201cHonest Leadership\u201d political committee.<\/p>\n

In House District 13, four Democrats are now running to replace departing Democratic Rep. Angie Nixon, including former Senate Democratic Leader\u00a0Audrey Gibson and former House hopeful Leslie Scott Jean-Bart. Political newcomers Brandon Groover and\u00a0Christopher Thomas are also in the mix.<\/p>\n

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This could end up being an open Primary unless a random no-party candidate materializes to close it to Democrats.<\/p>\n

Democratic Rep. Kimberly Daniels of House District 14 will face a Primary challenger yet again. This time around, it\u2019s Elgin Foreman Jr. He volunteers with the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

In House District 15, Rep. Dean Black has no competition for renomination by Republicans. However, Democratic competition has emerged here too, with Christopher Lloyd \u201cVan\u201d Cima running.<\/p>\n

Former House candidate Lloyd Caulker also is in the mix, as is Chadd Charland. Both of them are running as no-party candidates.<\/p>\n

In House District 16, Republican Rep. Kiyan Michael\u2019s current Democratic challenger is Eli Johnson.<\/p>\n

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Two Democrats,\u00a0Heather Smith and\u00a0Art Stresing, are seeking to challenge Republican Rep. Kim Kendall in House District 18. Democrats Suzanne Pavelle and\u00a0Lee Butler are seeking to challenge Republican Reps. Sam Greco and\u00a0Judson Sapp in House Districts 19 and 20, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrats in Northeast Florida are opening campaign accounts for House races ahead of qualifying week, which runs June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18523,91296,122316,101252,122317,101253,122318,6477,122319,122320,28,30,29,122321,122322,32051,122323,66290,122324,12984,122325,122326,61660,12077,122327],"class_list":["post-289194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-angie-nixon","tag-antoinette-harmon","tag-art-stresing","tag-audrey-gibson","tag-brandon-groover","tag-chadd-charland","tag-christopher-thomas","tag-dean-black","tag-elgin-foreman-jr","tag-eli-johnson","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-heather-smith","tag-judson-sapp","tag-kim-kendall","tag-kimberly-daniels","tag-kiyan-michael","tag-lee-butler","tag-leslie-scott-jean-bart","tag-lloyd-caulker","tag-marci-white","tag-sam-garrison","tag-sam-greco","tag-suzanne-pavelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289194","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=289194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}