{"id":78683,"date":"2025-12-10T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/78683\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:01:08","slug":"dlcc-adds-florida-to-its-target-map-of-2026-after-rob-longs-victory-in-hd-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/78683\/","title":{"rendered":"DLCC adds Florida to its \u2018Target Map of 2026\u2019 after Rob Long\u2019s victory in HD 90"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the heels of multiple off-year electoral victories, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC<\/a>) is adding both chambers of Florida\u2019s Legislature to its \u201cTarget Map of 2026<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Florida Democrats, the DLCC said, have a rare opportunity to chip away at Republicans\u2019 grip on state power. The Florida Senate and House are now under the DLCC\u2019s \u201cBreak and Prevent Republican Supermajorities\u201d category.<\/p>\n

The move follows Democrats\u2019 second Special Election win of the year: an 18-point shift left Tuesday in Palm Beach County\u2019s House District 90, where Democratic Delray Beach Commissioner Rob Long won with 63% of the vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Party strategists say that result, paired with DLCC data showing Democratic overperformance of 4.5 points in targeted 2025 contests, signals a political landscape that could deliver the party\u2019s biggest state-level gains in 20 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform state legislative power, including making inroads in Florida,\u201d DLCC President Heather Williams said in a statement, adding that the group is preparing its largest budget and target map ever.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe aren\u2019t wasting a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats hold far fewer seats than Republicans in both chambers, where the GOP enjoys supermajorities that allow it to pass priority bills with little resistance. But Democratic campaign arms say the narrowest races in 2024 were at the state level, giving them confidence they can protect incumbents and flip additional districts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Florida House Democratic Campaign Committee remains deeply committed to the unique opportunity we know we have in 2026,\u201d said Caucus Director Cassidy Whitaker, pointing to the \u201cAffordability Agenda<\/a>\u201d Democratic incumbents unveiled this week and a slate of \u201cstrong and serious challengers.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the Senate side, Jena Kingery, Director of Florida Senate Victory<\/a>, said Democrats are \u201cthrilled\u201d by the DLCC\u2019s backing as they push messaging centered on wages, costs and long-term affordability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the DLCC as a key partner,\u201d she said, we\u2019re ready to reach every voter to turn the tide and make lasting inroads in legislative districts across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The DLCC\u2019s announcement follows a pair of Special Election wins Sept. 2, when LaVon Bracy Davis<\/a> successfully moved from representing Orange County in House District 40 to doing so in Senate District 15. Fellow Democrat RaShon Young, previously a legislative staffer, won Bracy Davis\u2019 old seat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It also comes the same day as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee expanded<\/a> its list of 2026 \u201cDistricts in Play\u201d to include Florida\u2019s 15th Congressional District, which Republican Laurel Lee currently represents.<\/p>\n

The DLCC serves as the national campaign arm for Democratic state legislators and has helped secure nearly a dozen new chamber majorities over the past decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the heels of multiple off-year electoral victories, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) is adding both chambers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43999,44000,8184,28,30,29,44001,44002,25588],"class_list":["post-78683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cassidy-whitaker","tag-dlcc","tag-election-2026","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-heather-williams","tag-jena-kingerly","tag-rob-long"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78683","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=78683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}