Former Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) faces attacks by fellow Democrats for seeking to represent a heavily black congressional district in Florida.
About this district, the Miami Herald wrote: “Under the previous map, the population of the majority-minority 20th District was 53% Black … and the newly drawn 20th District is 45% Black. At least five Black Democrats are also vying for the seat.”
Wasserman Schultz’s current district is approximately 43% Hispanic, 32% white, 15% black and 5% Asian. This district has been redrawn and will likely be won by a Republican. So, Wasserman announced her candidacy for the seat formerly held by former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a black woman who resigned in scandal but is running to regain her seat.
About Wasserman’s candidacy, Cherfilus-McCormick said: “This is not the moment for forum shopping. This is not the moment to say this is easier, this is not. What matters in this moment is to make sure all the strides we have made to make sure Black representation is actually present matters.”
Elijah Manley, another rival candidate, wrote on X: “Debbie Wasserman Schultz is carpetbagging to FL-20, a black opportunity district instead of running in her own. DWS is everything that’s wrong with the Democratic establishment. From insider trading to payday lenders. I look forward to retiring her from public office permanently.” On Facebook, he added: “While other Dems are running to the fight, she’s running here to help Jim Crow Republicans in the South as they take away black voices in Congress. 20+ Years in Congress … Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is the rot in the Democratic Party.”
The Florida Black Legislative Caucus slammed Wasserman Schultz:
“Our party cannot credibly denounce the dismantling of Black political power by Republicans while treating one of Florida’s few remaining majority-Black districts as a political opportunity for an incumbent seeking a safer seat. We cannot claim to defend voting rights, racial justice, and representation while undermining Black political power when it becomes politically convenient.”
Wasserman does not believe she must be black to represent a district in which the plurality of voters is black. This is the same analysis made by Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama when he declared his candidacy for U.S. Senate in Illinois. Obama did not believe he needed to be white to represent a state with a majority white population. He reached a similar conclusion when he ran for president in a majority white country.
Obama chose her in 2011 as chairwoman of the DNC. In 2016, when Wasserman Schultz announced her intention to run for a sixth term in Congress, Obama issued a statement:
“Debbie has been a strong, progressive leader in Congress and a hardworking, committed Chair of our national Party since I proudly nominated her to the role in 2011.
“She always stands up and fights for what is right for her district while passionately supporting middle class families.
“Throughout my time as President I have seen Debbie bring an unwavering commitment to her family, her constituents, and our shared goals of protecting seniors, supporting working families, and expanding economic opportunity for more people.
“I strongly endorse her reelection to Congress and look forward to her future service on behalf of the people of South Florida.”
Wasserman Schultz notes that of the 14 cities in this new district, she has represented nine. As for her 2023 voting record, the liberal Americans for Democratic Action rated her 95%, the same rating received by black longtime South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn. Clyburn’s district may also be dismantled. But Clyburn says he intends to run again no matter how his district is redrawn.
There are four black Republican U.S. House representatives; none represents a majority black district. Democrats are the party of identity politics, the party that tells voters that America remains “systemically racist” and the party that tells “people of color” they are victims in need of leaders who look like them. As a former DNC chair, Wasserman Schultz has played a huge role in promoting this narrative, a narrative that results in her being attacked as for promoting “Jim Crow” for merely asking voters to evaluate her based on policies, experience and character.
Live by the race card. Die by the race card.
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Hey Black Americans, who knows what is best for you than a corrupt New York Jew -Communist sympathizer?
This woman is afraud and traitor to our country.
WAKEUP Black America———–vote Republican
Rush Limbaugh labeled her perfectly a long time ago: Debbie Blabbermouth-Schultz. She’ll do anything to avoid walking away from her self-serving, pocket-lining gig.
Larry Elder makes some excellent observations. Always enjoy reading his perspectives.
Did I just read “jim crow” repubs?! Wait, jim crow was all demonrats! Of course we all know who the real racists are in the government and they’re not the conservatives!
I absolutely love it, taste, what you cooked, as for her replacing the one who resigned in scandal, she would be a perfect replacement. Any of them, scandal is their second name.
She is getting exactly what she deserves. Identity politics is a poison strategy
Don’t forget that Wasserman Schultz resigned from DNC Chair in 2016 when she was caught rigging the Democrat presidential primary for Hillary Clinton.
Honestly, Dems are just a Circus full of clowns. Not the nice fun kind, the nightmare kind.
Schultz is a political hack. Always has been in my opinion. Cares nothing about her district, it’s people, or America, just her own political power and money. The fact she’s willing to district shop in an area she has nothing to do with appears to show that.
I will be very happy when this piece of flotsam loses.
Jim Crow and the KKK were of Democrat origins.
Democrat fatigue is getting strong.
There definitely needs to be term limits. Rino’s need to be renamed Democrats. I too appreciate Larry Elder.
Blabbermouth Schultz craves POWER like all the DIMMs. Why she go out and get a REAL job when she can nurse on the government teat?
Smh… 2026 n still in cowardice denial. WILL SOMEONE PLEEEEEEEASE SAY “Enough is enough” it’s been over 60 years and the DEMONcRatic SKIN MELANIN CON CONtinues to impersonate as RACE – it is NOT! The shameful shallowness of skin tone, specifically black, needs to be Discontinued. Sooner the better. Its actually waaaaaaay past time!
* FACT- RACE = 3 criteria, a person’s BIRTH Country, #1 Language, and Community/Clan.
RACE has zilch zero zippo 2do with skin color. Until this wicked CON, Ploy for votes by Dems, there will always be subversive conflicts.
Regarding skin melanin, only the ignorance of a shallow Prejudice is exposed as SINister… but not RACISM.
Even our GOD of Creation in the Bible speaks RACE as “Tongue, Tribe Territory, NEVER SKIN Tones.
I ask again, WILL ANYONE COURAGEOUSLY MAKE THIS RIGHT?
Larry’s conclusion is exactly right— live by race baiting, die by race baiting. Dippy Debbie has never represented anyone except her commie- leaning contributors— just like her mentor, Obama. To say they have, either one, ever made a lasting contribution to society as a whole is just fantasy.
I certainly hope there is a black Republican to run against her
Typical Democrat behavior. They talk about the blacks in this country. But they don’t do nothing for them. Even Obama said she was a good representative for the upper middle class. They talk racism. The racism that was slowly but surely diminishing since the 1980’s. Only that was not what they wanted. They wanted to keep it alive. The Southern Law Center went so far as to pay the KKK to create racism or at the least keep it alive. They supported BLM in their riots in 2020. With the blessing of the FBI. Now we need to restore the country from this lawlessness. They obstruct the ICE agents, border agents and local police. Take away our guns and free speech. They are the ones that are destroying this country every day. This Wasserman person is doing it for herself. Like every other Democrat in power is doing. Will they all be voted out? Green got voted out she will as well. Kameltoe got voted out and the people have learned a lot more about the democrats since then. All the screaming and demonstrations, obstructions and voter fraud they do will finally break them, because every day we see more of their fraud.
The Democrat Party: Black and White, racists one and all.
Anyone who believes the words that this woman is speaking has an extremely limited understanding about reality of expecting that this representative will take care of the constituents for their district instead of just being in that position for their personal gain benefits. We need to eliminate people becoming involved in politics just for personal financial gain purposes
this is what dems think of blacks?
Wasserman should have been put out of politics a long long time ago. She is anything but pro-American.
Is anybody surprised? The Democrat party is the party of losers, the party of victims, and the party of pathological liars. There is no exception. They promise everybody anything that they want to get their vote and they deliver absolutely nothing. All they deliver is waste fraud and abuse. You can’t even have a logical discussion with somebody that doesn’t even know what a woman is.
hopefully her fellow democrats will wise up and learn the cost of identity politics also. But I won’t hold my breath because identity politics is the bread and butter of the democratic party.
The last figure I read about the percentage of Blacks in the U.S. is 10% to 15%. The Blacks and the Democrat/Communist Party seems to think they should be counted at 50% or more. These DCP’ers need to get real with their expectations. The people who they are racist against are White people and everyone knows it. Guess they will never give up that “card” nor their hate speech against Whites which is growing more vile by the day.
Love Mr E! Hope he runs for president one day. He would really be the first black president of this country!
No surprise here!
Sergeant Shultz cannot claim, “I know nothing!” She was read-in on how this would roll out. She was instrumental in engineering the party’s shenanigans while heading the DNC, and was a back door operator for Killery Clinton. It would be poetic justice for this opportunist to get her ass kicked in the primary.
Somebody show that woman and her weirdo hair the EXIT. She has-been (has-been. See what I did there?) up there long enough, pocketed enough $$$$$ and made enough speeches already…..
love it! I always dws was a fraud.
She will most likely win. The black voters have been used by the democrats for 50 years. Why should they suddenly wise up.
All the Blacks want is a Black a Black candidate. They vote skin color and have no idea of a candidate’s policies, background, opinions, etc. Just being Black makes the candidate the right choice.
As always, Mr. Elder cuts through the smoke and haze with the bright lights of facts, i.e., TRUTH!
Squishy, wishy-washy politicians need to *experience* the consequences of trying to “change colors”— and other, non-racial hypocrisies— simply to retain power in perpetuity.
I am ALL IN for establishing limits to the number of terms anyone can “serve” in any branch of government— local, state or federal.
Enough with “lifetime” bureaucrats! Get a life; get a “private sector” job; get off the public dole.
“….20+ Years in Congress … Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is the rot in the Democratic Party.” That’s only part of the truth. The FULL truth and nothing but the truth, is that the WHOLE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS ROT!!!! ALL THE WAY TO IT’S EVIL, CORRUPT, VIOLENT, AND SADISTICAL CORE.
What happened to her face? was she in a car wreck?
I grew up in Queens NY. Now Thank God in Florida.Wasserman is a Jew from Brooklyn and now in Florida. Jews have no shame. (running for office in a black area in FLA.) My opinion.
If Wasent For Raceism The DNC Would Have No Platform On Which To Stand. The DNC Is The New Islam.
Wasserman is a continuous FUBAR! She’s a known liar, who misrepresents herself and what she truly stands for! Her Activist, Atheistic, Leftist Agenda has no place in the Mainstream today nor ever will it have place in a Christian Moral Society! Only those of like minds give her a Public Platform from which to speak, proving how those in support are Parasites, with the inability to survive without leeching on those of a Christian Moral Life, the True Blood of a Successful America!
If she does win the Democratic nomination, which is a strong possibility due to the number of black candidates running against her, I would hope that the Republicans would have put up a strong black candidate to run against her.
The woman is sooo ugly. How do you do an unlook….I want to erase her image from my brain.
Mr. Elder is a continuing voice that many need to hear and listen to. He is an American through and through, and his common sense and outstanding personality are sorely needed in these trying times. Thank you, Mr. Elder for continuing to be our voice.
I am so tired of the racists in the demorat party. I thought blacks wanted equality? Why do they insist that blacks should be represented by other bla? I’m pretty sure we’re all Americans, black or white, so we should be represented by someone with good content of character, not just by someone with the same skin color. Democrats are racist whether they are black or white. I detest those people.
Don’t ya’ just love it when these scum bag politicians get smacked in the face by the truth!
I am from Florida. Believe me, Wahserwoman-Schultz needs to go. It’s a great thing that the psychopathic dinosaur, Frederica Wilson will be none soon also.
Weaponize their policies against then
Why hasn’t she been rotting away behind bars over her close, intentional involvement with the Awan Brothers?!?
Mr. Manly, I take personal resentment to your calling me a “jim crow republican”, talk about racial, LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
Rush had the name right – Debbie Blabbermouth Schoultz.
I have no love for DWS, but who’s to say she would do any worse representing blacks than your typical black democrat?
Remember a few years ago, she said she was African American? That was shot down.
This is going to be fun!!
Wanna know who’s gonna win just watch where the money goes!!!!!
Black Americans never left the democrat (joe crow) plantations!!!!!
Republicans and Democrats are the same party, they are looking out for their own interests. They do not care about the middle class or the state of the country. Both, Republicans and Democrats, all they care about is money and pure unchecked power. There’s no Republican or Democrats, it’s the elites vs the people, the sooner people understand and figure that out. The sooner we can fix the globalist cancer in DC. Between the Israeli First AIPAC lobbyists, the CCP owned and operated lobbyists, the broligarchic tech industrial complex lobbyists and all the other corrupt politicians. DWS is the least of this country’s problems.