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(Jewish Group) Could Swing Key Congress Races -- And Help Democrats Take Back Congress
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)If the Democratic Party is hoping for a “blue wave” that will help it recapture the House of Representatives, it will need to flip at least 23 districts, likely including one in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Florida’s 18th congressional district is filled with bubbies in age-restricted communities, strip malls and synagogues, including the Reform Temple Beit HaYam, Hebrew for “House of the Sea.”
The candidate the party is backing there has an eye-catching resume. Lauren Baer worked as a senior adviser to Secretaries of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry and graduated from Harvard College, Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. As she travels the area in search of votes, she’ll do a lot of getting into and out of her car to ring suburban doorbells and tout her local ties — she was born in the county. Plus, she’s young and married with a very cute kid.
But something else altogether could be what puts her over the top: Baer is Jewish, and so is her district.
The Democrats have made districts like the 18th central to their strategy for 2018. The voters in that district did choose Donald Trump in the last election. But the area is disproportionately educated, white-collar and Jewish. Those factors, Democrats believe, make it flippable, both because Democrats (especially Jewish Democrats) are fired up, and because Republicans (especially Jewish Republicans) are not. And those battlegrounds could determine who controls the House after the midterms – and therefore whether President Trump gets impeached.
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Ruh-roh. Now they need our votes and not just our money! Oh my.
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