MIAMI — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has won the Democratic nomination for Florida’s 20th District, prevailing in a brutal, crowded primary after jumping into a district whose seat had been represented by a Black lawmaker for more than three decades.
Wasserman Schultz made the decision to run in Florida’s 20th District after her current seat was splintered by new congressional maps pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis under rare mid-decade redistricting. It’s a solidly blue seat which is currently vacant after its former officeholder, Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, resigned under scandal.