Like the meme I saw (and felt) on Mastodon yesterday that said something like "Living in Florida right now is like being that one kid in the orphanage watching all the other kids get adopted into happy new families".

Nixon went on to say that Democrats were wary of throwing in behind a Black woman in the South following Kamala Harris’ 2024 loss

A Black Republican was elected over a white Democrat in Florida's gubernatorial election. They may be more interested in partisanship than racism down there.

Chuck Schumer was less than thrilled about her race.

Chuck Schumer is a relic. that needs to go.

Its hard to be surprised that florida was under funded. The state dem party is a joke, and last time the governorship was up, they nominated a republican. Its given me so many disappointments i have no faith in that state.

I agree, they didn't help her at all. They spent more money in Missouri than Florida.

I’d say Floridians failed hard, they aren’t capable of electing anyone decent.

The great thing about this election is that it was a special election. She can literally run again in two years since the term ends. And she absolutely should. As more DSA politicians gain national popularity like Mamdani and Abdul (not DSA but is very much associated with them), she will have a lot more support. And there are a lot of House members that can promote DSA from DC.

The next two years are about building the power and funding of the DSA so the Democratic party is less of an issue and a dependence. And we need AoC for that funding and national popularity. The DSA needs to understand that opportunity. That we need to be within the foundation of her campaign. So when the time comes for 2028 these candidates are further less dependent on establishment and a frontrunner for the presidential primary has DSA as its foundation. And DSA isn't chasing her and pressuring policy from the outside.

We want less money and influence coming from the Democratic Establishment and more coming from building an independent insurgency that operates within the Democratic party until we are either forced out, or are popular enough that the "default to Democrat" vote of a lot of the country is no longer a massive hurdle.

I don't think we will be able to run as a separate party by 2028. But, we (DSA) need to start operating like we are.

Election Day brought a big blue earthquake of anti-Trump sentiment that rumbled as far inland as Kansas and shook GOP ground in the Carolinas and Texas. By the time late victories rolled in on Tuesday night, there had been so many wins that subsequent Democratic pickups had begun to feel more like aftershocks, even in states that haven’t voted blue since Bill Clinton was in the White House.

Florida narrowly missed the quake, with Republicans winning all the major statewide races by the thinnest of margins.

She went to Putnam County and talked with those folks about healthcare.

I bet they still voted red all the way down.

You can’t turn the middle of the state blue.

Yes, if they had known there would be a nationwide 13+ point shift, maybe they could have allocated resources a little better.

Or not. Hard to argue they should have done things differently with this result. I mean, yeah, I feel it too. There are races that just needed a little more to get over the line, but I don't think we should have expected those races to be in Mississippi and the Florida Senate (and we're probably winning Mississippi).

Honestly if the blue wave didn’t happen and dems threw money into Florida we’d have called them stupid for not focusing on the top gets.

I’m sorry man I would have done the same thing in their shoes. This is a hindsight call.