{"id":417701,"date":"2026-10-03T12:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:38:09","slug":"todd-delmay-michael-ferguson-join-broward-democrats-for-saturday-day-of-action-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417701\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Delmay, Michael Ferguson join Broward Democrats for Saturday Day of Action in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Todd Delmay\u00a0and Michael Ferguson, the Democrats running for the two Republican-held House seats<\/a> in Broward County, will spend Saturday morning working voters from a pavilion at Snyder Park in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n

The Broward Democratic Party<\/a> and the Florida Democratic Party are hosting the Day of Action with SAVE Action PAC<\/a>, the Dolphin Democrats<\/a> and Hope & Action Indivisible<\/a>. Volunteers gather at 9:30 a.m. at the Caldwell Pavilion, 3299 SW 4th Ave., and the program runs until noon. Emma Collum is the on-site contact at (954) 952-0191. Media should reach Ulysses Del Pino at (786) 527-0144.<\/p>\n

Ferguson is running in House District 100, the coastal seat that term-limited Republican state Rep. Chip LaMarca is leaving after eight years. Delmay is challenging Republican state Rep. Hillary Cassel in House District 101, the seat she won twice as a Democrat before switching parties<\/a> in December 2024. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee lists both among the seven Republican-held House seats<\/a> it is spending to flip.<\/p>\n

HD 100 runs along the coast from Fort Lauderdale north to the Palm Beach County line, taking in parts of Pompano Beach, Lighthouse Point and Deerfield Beach. Donald Trump carried it with 53% in 2024, the year LaMarca won re-election with more than 57%. Republicans hold a registration edge of nearly 10,000 voters.<\/p>\n

Ferguson, an attorney and former Air Force Judge Advocate who grew up in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, filed in April<\/a> and drew no Primary opponent. He outraised the four Republicans in the race combined during the April-to-June reporting period<\/a> and had raised and spent about $315,000 by Primary night, with cash left over.<\/p>\n

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The Republican nominee is Yoni Anijar<\/a>, a corporate lawyer and Army Reserve JAG captain who took 38% in a four-way Primary over former Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Mayor Chris Vincent, pediatric plastic surgeon Eric \u201cDoc\u201d Stelnicki and insurance executive Raul Gallon. Anijar raised about $282,000 through late July on top of $235,000 in personal loans. He carries endorsements from Republican National Committee Chair and state Sen. Joe Gruters and state Rep. Meg Weinberger.<\/p>\n

HD 101 covers Hollywood, Dania Beach and Hallandale Beach, with pieces of Davie and Fort Lauderdale. Joe Biden carried it in 2020. Trump won it narrowly in 2024. When Delmay filed in February 2025<\/a>, Democrats outnumbered Republicans there by about 43,000 to 30,000, with another 41,000 voters registered with no party or a minor party.<\/p>\n

Cassel won the seat in 2022 and was re-elected without opposition in 2024. Weeks later she joined the House Republican supermajority, citing what she called the Democratic Party\u2019s failure to unequivocally support Israel. She has argued since that the switch gave her more pull in the Capitol and that her positions matter more than her label.<\/p>\n

Delmay, Executive Director of SAVE and a plaintiff in the lawsuit that brought same-sex marriage to Florida, lost to Cassel by about 6 points in the 2022 Democratic Primary. He has called her switch a betrayal of the voters who elected her and has criticized her support of the federal \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill<\/a>.\u201d His endorsements include U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz<\/a>, the Florida AFL-CIO and SEIU Florida<\/a>, and more than 30 current and former South Florida elected officials.<\/p>\n

SAVE Action PAC, the political arm of the organization Delmay runs, endorsed him in May<\/a>. Delmay is a past President of the Dolphin Democrats, which has endorsed both him and Ferguson<\/a> for November.<\/p>\n

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Ferguson\u2019s campaign says he is running to lower costs and keep families, young people and seniors from being priced out of Broward.<\/p>\n

Florida law requires domestic vote-by-mail ballots to go out between 40 and 33 days before Election Day. That window closed Thursday. The General Election is Nov. 3.<\/p>\n

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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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Delmay\u00a0and Michael Ferguson, the Democrats running for the two Republican-held House seats in Broward County, will spend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,165316,23481,165317,6699,44000,165318,8184,9085,249,251,250,34220,65659,116545,63000,165319,165320,165321,123721,116550,116551,149585],"class_list":["post-417701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-broward-democratic-party","tag-chip-lamarca","tag-day-of-action","tag-debbie-wasserman-schultz","tag-dlcc","tag-dolphin-democrats","tag-election-2026","tag-florida-democratic-party","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-general-election","tag-hd-100","tag-hd-101","tag-hillary-cassel","tag-hope-action-indivisible","tag-house-district-100","tag-house-district-101","tag-michael-ferguson","tag-save-action-pac","tag-todd-delmay","tag-yoni-anijar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417701","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=417701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}