2023 Jacksonville Mayoral Election (jungle primary 3/21, runoff 5/16)

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The last pooling was like 6 months ago, but had Deegan in the lead which is believable given her natural name recognition. I feel her getting into the runoff is a decent bet

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Apperently Deegan is Lebanese, so she has my vote. Her cousin Tommy Hazouri was mayor 1987-1991. He passed away in 2021.

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I hope Deegan can win this seat and flip it to the Dems. She’s already in her 60s so I don’t know if she’ll have a future after Mayoralship. If all goes well she might be a decent statewide candidate down the road.

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Donna Deegan has endorsed Andrew Gillum over Gwen Graham in the 2018 Dem gubernatorial primary even though Gillum called for abolition of ICE, seeked to raise FL’s corporate tax rate to 7.75 percent, called for $1 billion tax hike and for an even higher tax rate than NY. So Deegan agrees with Andrew Gillum’s socialist agenda and supports open borders and higher taxes

https://folioweekly.com/2018/04/18/donna-deegans-first-political-endorsement-is-as-bold-as-it-is-surprising/

I’m sure this will sink her campaign (/s)

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Lol rip Cumber

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https://twitter.com/FLPolEnjoyer/status/1638371579104051200

Anyone have any insight into what happened in City Council District 1?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ city and local politics tend to be the least polarized, especially in smaller cities. There are some rural west Kansas counties with democratic DA’s. I’d I had to guess the republican is a well known name who is much more moderate then could ever get elected federally while the democrat was a non-serious candidate, ideological outlier, or just a bad campaigner

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Republicans outspent Dems $10 million to $1 million which explains the turnout differential.

I expect Davis will win because DeSantis is going to spend to ensure he wins. If a Dem picked up Jacksonville it would hurt his presidential ambitions.

I don’t see how Jacksonville electing a Democrat hurts DeSantis’s presidential ambitions, especially when it seems he’ll be more busy with Trump being arrested and possible extradition.