Two of the Special Congress elections on Tuesday in Florida were supposed to be for the Republican Party. Instead, one competition has turned into an unlikely scene for millions of dollars-to inform before the elections on how the race became a race at all.
The seat, in the Sixth Congress in Florida, was recently occupied by Michael Waltz, who resigned from the work as a national security adviser to President Trump and who found himself in the middle From the signal leakage. It was not competitive from a distance last fall when Mr. Waltz won 33 percentage points.
However, the Democrats are now pressing the transformation of this deep red region around the Dynona Beach into-if it is not an actual victory-a symbol of momentum that affects the need by cutting deeply in the margin of the Republican Model Party in the region.
The amazing competitiveness of the race has already affected the cabinet of Mr. Trump. Last week, he announced that he was withdrawing his appointment Actor Elise Stefanick As the United Nations Ambassador, saying that this step was partial to avoid other special elections later this year for its seat, which is less than Republicans than the old year of Mr. Waltz.
“I didn’t want to take the opportunity,” Mr. Trump said Friday in the Oval Office. At the present time, there are only 218 Republicans in the House of Representatives, with four vacancies, two of which are in solid democratic areas. It is a shaving margin to try to pass the president’s agenda.
some Special surveys They showed the choice of Mr. Trump in the sixth boycott race, Senator Randy Fine, a Republican, who faces a real competition against Josh Wale, the 40 -year -old democratic candidate who was a school teacher.
Mr. Will drew attention to the mass money raising, raising nearly $ 9.5 million in mid -March. To close this cash gap, Mr. Fine donated $ 600,000 for his campaign in late March. His last cash report showed $ 93,000 on hand, compared to $ 1.3 million to Mr. Whale.
“You never know what is happening in such a case,” said Mr. Trump.
Low special elections cannot be predicted. An excessive explanation for what the results mean for future elections, when they are more voters, can be risky. In recent years, the Democrats have been strongly extended in these elections, including Pennsylvania state in the Senate this monthLargely because voters who are shown reliably are more likely to be democratic.
But the narrow margin in particular on Tuesday can affect the ruling in the House of Representatives and the agenda Unusually alignment With the president and each other.
“They seem to feel panic,” said actor Hakim Jeffrez from New York, the largest Democrat in the House of Representatives, last week in Capitol, describing it as “another sign that the Republicans are fleeing.”
Other private elections in the first Congress region in Florida, for the old seat of Matt Gitz, former Republican Congress member who was the choice of Mr. Trump to work as a general lawyer before withdrawing late last year. This race, which was seen as less competitive, displays Jimmy Rafiya, a Republican is the financial manager of the state, gay Valmonant, and is active in controlling weapons.
Mr. Gaetz said that his party will win both competitions and that the wonderful money raising numbers for Democrats were not identical to the dynamics of the changeable regions.
He said, “Of course, they felt annoyed about raising money.” “But frankly, I think the donation of the loss of candidates is no less than winning the elections and more about personal treatment.”
To date, more than $ 5 million has been spent on TV ads in the race, according to ADIMPACT data, a media tracking company.
But despite the distance of Mr. Will to raise funds, in fact it had surpassed the air waves of nearly four to one, thanks to the support of Mr. Fine from Super Pacs, including one associated with the encryption industry. A large share of Mr. Will’s money went to the costs of collecting money and other expenses.
As of Friday, the pro -Republican TV spending was to be about $ 4.1 million, compared to only $ 1.3 million in favor of Mr. Will.
The largest super -PACS for Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives has erected so far on the margin, as well as Mr. Trump, although the group has continued to raise funds strongly since his election, including a million dollar donor dinner in Mar Lago.
Mr. Trump carried the Tele-Town halls for both Florida races last Thursday, and Elon Musk’s Super Pac has begun spending a small amount for Mr. Fine in recent days. Donald Trump Junior has registered a radio advertisement linking Mr. Fine with his father.
A spokesman for Mr. Fine, Brian Bilagra, said that the state’s Senator will win “because of the power of Trump’s agenda and the belief of the American people in it.”
“The success of this campaign is a loud message to our current administration and the oligars, Elon Musk, from the feelings of people regarding the dismantling of the basic systems on which the American people depend to survive,” Mr. Will said in a statement.
Few Democrats expect victory. But they hope to turn the competition into an early example of a violent reaction to Mr. Trump. During the weekend, Ken Martin, the new president of the National Democratic Committee, traveled to the sixth boycott to attract more attention to the race after attending another place in Florida.
For both parties, the pre -absorption of the result was in its full strength, as some national leaders question the effectiveness of Mr. Fine as an active.
Actor Richard Hudson of North Carolina, who leads the arm of the Republican campaign in the House of Representatives, He told reporters In the Capitol last week, “I would have preferred if our candidate had raised money at a faster rate and got the TV faster.”
Mr. Fine told the Republican leaders in the House of Representatives early on the advantage of collecting democratic funds, but he felt that the warnings fell on deaf ears, according to someone who briefed the talks.
Ruling Ron Desantis, the Republican in Florida, who represented the sixth province, throws Mr. Fine, without calling it, as a problem, urges observers not to extract broader conclusions about Mr. Trump or the national political climate of the potential rapprochement of the competition.
“They will try to put it at the feet of President Trump,” Mr. Desantis He said last week. “This is not a reflection of President Trump. It is a reflection of the specific candidate that works in this race.”
(Mr. Disantis and Mr. Fine have their history. Mr. Fine Its support From Mr. Desantes to Mr. Trump during the 2024 presidential primaries, accusing the ruler of not fighting anti -Semitism sufficiently.)
However, Mr. Desantis said that “it will be almost impossible with someone bearing the name R to lose that area.”
The advertising campaign for Mr. Fine sought to Nair to the president as possible.
“President Trump needs a fine in Congress,” The narrator says In a recent supporter advertisement, it focuses almost exclusively on linking the two men. “Florida agreed. Trump supported. He stands with Trump. Randy’s fine voice.”
One of the blisters of Mr. Will, Mr. Fine, with An amazing set of accusationsHe described it as “violent”, “corrupt”, “radical”, “dangerous”, “unspecified” and “anti-Americans”-all in 30 seconds.
In a sign of the lack of Republicans, the party’s National Congress campaign did not lead to the polling before the competition, according to the people who were briefed on their operations.
The Democratic Congress Campaign Committee rejected the comment.
“Although their democratic money is lit on their money, Randy Fine will be a member of Congress,” said Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the Republican campaign in the House of Representatives,. “Everything else is just noise.”
Theodor Shelvver The reports contributed.
