Florida GOP Chair blames 'bloody Primary' for Democratic mayoral win in Jax

[RandySF]

Christian Ziegler‘s Republican Party of Florida took a loss in Jacksonville when Donna Deegan was elected Mayor earlier this month.

Deegan won by roughly four points, bringing an end to eight years of Republican control of the Mayor’s Office.

In a Twitter Space Tuesday, Ziegler reflected on the Democratic win, which happened despite a Republican turnout edge. He contended that unresolved issues from the Primary negated Republican over-performance in turnout, along with potential issues of “candidate quality.”

“It’s a D +4 but we actually had a Republican +3.2 advantage when it came to turnout. So that’s a +7.2 turnout. If you give me a +7.2 performance by the Republicans, you know, I’ll take that pretty much anywhere in the state,” Ziegler said, contending “the turnout was there … the GOP voters were there.”

Ziegler acknowledged “independents and maybe some of the Republicans that broke” toward Deegan and away from Republican Daniel Davis, adding that “from a party perspective, our job is to just get the voters out there.”

“It wasn’t enough because some of these, you know, voters broke and the question is why did they break?” Ziegler noted.





https://floridapolitics.com/archives/615455-bloody-primary-jax/

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Denial is not just a river in Africa

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. "the question is why did they break? " a vote against fascism??

[RandySF]

4. There IS a schism among Duval Republicans these days

Between the establishment governing class and the more aggressive ‘win at all costs’ group.

[DFW]

3. Why indeed would they break?

Well, one possible explanation would be that they have had enough of being considered mindlessly robotic Republican voters who will vote for any Republican, no matter HOW awful their candidate is. My very first vote ever was for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1971, and I proudly cast my vote for the Republican candidate, Thatcher Longstreth. The Philly Democrats nominated the sadistic, corrupt, oafish police commissioner, Frank Rizzo, and there was no way I was going to vote for him, no matter what party he belonged to. Actually, shortly after his victory, he DID switch to the Republicans, which is where he belonged all along. The Democratic Party in Philadelphia was a false flag of convenience for him, as we owned City Hall in those days.

[Hortensis]

5. Bless his heat, but he's on it: "The Left is conducting a full assault on our CHILDREN."

From Twitter:

The Left is conducting a full assault on our CHILDREN. That should motivate you to step up and get involved. Please join us. Florida GOP

FIND YOUR LOCAL REPUBLICAN PARTY

and

If we lose our culture to the Leftists, we lose our Local Communities & Country.
Keep going. We need every Republican fighting the vile Leftists at every level of society.

My own vile bleeding heart bleeds for their existential problems.

[lark]

6. Davis was a bad candidate and was heavily involved the FPL nightmare.

People here know that and don't trust him and so he lost! Donna had no such negatives to drag her down and Jax has voted blue in lots of elections lately. Nice that we finally put in another D for mayor!