Democratic Socialists Look for Upsets in Hostile Territory

“Florida does not jump off the electoral map as fertile territory for democratic socialists. President Trump won the state, which has shifted right in recent years, by 13 percentage points in 2024. And in many Latin American communities in South Florida, socialism is a dirty word,” the New York Times reports.

“Yet three underdog democratic socialist candidates are trying to prove that the way for the Democratic Party to regain relevance in a state that not long ago was the nation’s premier political battleground is by embracing the left, not recoiling from it.”