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The Democrats in Florida are organizing town halls in Republican districts

The democratic voters of Pinellas County expressed their frustrations with Doge cuts in one of the first events as part of the new mobilization efforts.

Clearwater, Florida-in a center in Clearwater, joined democratic voters on Saturday a microphone in which a cardboard image of her representative, MEP Anna Paulina Luna (R-Pinellas), agreed.

“I called and sent nothing of them and heard,” said a woman who was added that her husband was recently “illegally released” by his job at the US Geological Survey.

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The town hall of the Democratic Party in Florida was one of several in red districts across the state. According to a political report at the beginning of this month, a directive for republican representatives was emphasized in order to no longer keep the holding of personal townhalls in the middle of the counter reaction.

“I wanted to make sure that people in communities have the opportunity to hear and be heard. And unfortunately Republican congress members just don't come home. They do not come home to answer the questions to what happens in Washington, DC, ”said Nikki Fried, chairman of the Democratic Party in Florida.

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Dozens of voters asked questions on Saturday and expressed concerns, annoyed about the guidelines of the Trump administration, the tariffs and in particular the role of Elon Musk in federal cuts.

“Many of my neighbors who are my age, I am 81 years old, my husband is 83 years old, we are afraid that Doge will reduce social security,” said Rose Berg, a resident of Dunedin.

“The concern for me is the loss of the balance of power,” said Niki Amarantides, a resident of Palm Harbor. “These are not red and blue problems. These are red, white and blue problems. They affect all of us as Americans. “

It is a message that is shared by Fried when she works to gather a dwindling blue base in a Redder Florida.

“This is a moment in American history in which we were able to find out who we are and come together, regardless of partisan policy,” said Fried, who moderated the Town in addition to the former congress candidate Whitney Fox, a democrat who had lost the race of the district to Luna last November.

Fox, who cheered the crowd, saw a question whether she was planning a run in 2026 and said, regardless of the fact that she “can't stop fighting”.

10 Tampa Bay turned to a comment on the office of congress member Luna on Saturday evening and had not yet heard.

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Evan Power, Chairman of the Republican Party in Florida, reacted in a statement to Townhall Blitz and said: “Voters recently had town halls that were called as elections. People spoke loudly and clearly what they wanted. “

“No matter how much wrong outrage the failed democratic party tries to produce, they don't speak for Floridians,” added Power.

At that moment, the Republicans feel safe where they are in the Sunshine state and have a 1.2 million registered voter advantage over the democratic party. In Pinella's County, the Republicans have an approximately 39,000 registered voter. The 13th congress district was re -drawn after the 2020 elections and has been recorded by Luna since then.

The Florida Democrats will continue the Townhall efforts in Sumter County on Sunday and Seminole County next week.