The ripple effect of the Republicans’ political maneuvering to secure a congressional majority has opened a rift within the Democratic Party in Florida. The new electoral map promoted by Governor Ron DeSantis altered the electoral geography so dramatically that it erased District 25, the seat Debbie Wasserman Schultz previously held in Broward, north of Miami, leaving the congresswoman living in another district and her voters dispersed into other, more Republican-leaning districts.
Wasserman Schultz is now running for the nomination in District 20, a Black-majority Democratic stronghold north of Miami that became vacant after Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned in April. For Wasserman Schultz,
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