{"id":366409,"date":"2026-08-08T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366409\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:40:18","slug":"knock-the-vote-kathy-castor-brian-nathan-and-nikki-fried-take-the-democrats-door-game-to-south-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366409\/","title":{"rendered":"Knock the vote: Kathy Castor, Brian Nathan and Nikki Fried take the Democrats\u2019 door game to South Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The canvass runs from 10 a.m. to noon.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Brian Nathan won his seat by 408 votes. He doesn\u2019t need a briefing on why door-knocking matters.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s push to organize early ahead of the Midterms.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cbuilding a Florida where all have an opportunity to thrive.\u201d Volunteers will then fan out to knock doors in surrounding neighborhoods until noon.<\/p>\n

The location is friendly ground. Nathan flipped Senate District 14<\/a> in a March Special Election, taking the seat Lt. Gov. Jay Collins vacated when he joined the Gov. Ron DeSantis administration.<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

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Nathan will need that support again soon. Tomkow pledged a November rematch the night she conceded.<\/p>\n

Castor is facing high stakes this cycle as well. The Tampa Democrat has held Florida\u2019s 14th Congressional District since 2007 and is seeking another term in a seat that had been reliably blue. But that\u2019s changing this cycle, with Republicans eyeing a flip under the new cartography.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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