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The stark impact of redistricting might be clearer nowhere more than in the Orlando suburbs. Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), a member of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, currently represents the area.
But Republicans redrew her district to heavily favor them, so she is leaving Congress rather than try to win. And she’s likely to be replaced by a far-right Republican, Cory Mills, who won the GOP nomination Tuesday.
A veteran, Mills denies the 2020 election results and has bragged in his campaign that he “sold tear gas used on Black Lives Matter protesters.”
Outside Tampa, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s former secretary of state, Laurel Lee, won the primary for this new congressional district that leans Republican. She oversaw the state’s successful election in 2020 — and subsequent GOP efforts to make voting harder.
