Perhaps someone from that district can enlighten us on what happened with Domino, because I’m somewhat at a loss. We all know Murphy himself thought he was on borrowed time (at one point floating the notion of switching to the GOP in order to hold the seat), so Domino’s disastrous showing (lost by almost 20%) is all the more shocking.
You know my opinion of the CA races. That we didn’t pick up any House seats where the Dems are too overrepresented was highly suspicious (especially after seeing the primary performances). We should pick up the previously GOP Lois Capps seat this time with her vacating it.
We can probably thank Mike Huffington for messing the seat up to begin with. The GOP incumbent, Bob Lagomarsino, was doing just fine with it, Huffington comes in and drops a $hitload of money to buy it out from under him (when he had no intention of remaining in it). Starts campaigning for Senator almost from the moment after winning it (when he should’ve just run outright for it to begin with), a weak Conservative lady wins it in 1994 and the disastrous collapse of the CA GOP beginning with the 1996 elections swept her out. Lagomarsino could’ve held onto it for at least another decade.
Getting back to FL, I loathe that the legislature has its hands tied on redistricting due to that Democrat initiative, which ought to be tossed out on Constitutional grounds. With a free hand (exclusive of the VRA to protect the Black moonbat Dems), the leg could wipe out Graham (2nd), Grayson (9th), Murphy (18th), and perhaps weaken one of the incumbents from the 21st (Deutch), 22nd (Frankel), or 23rd (Lil’ Debbie)) to get a 20R-7D or 21R-6D delegation.
I don’t know about getting rid of Grayson, that’s a lot of rats to parcel out.
Walter Capps never should have won, Dole carried the district IIRC, but that area is a lot less Republican now.