Debbie Wasserman Schultz Under Fire for Running in a Florida Majority-Minority District
“She is no different than the Republicans that are eviscerating black representation across the South. She is everything that’s wrong with the broken unpopular Democratic establishment.”
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) has come under fire from black Democrats after she announced she would run in Florida’s 20th Congressional District.
Wasserman Schultz had no choice since the new map eliminated her district.
Today, I’m announcing my candidacy for Florida’s 20th congressional district.
I’ll continue to use my seniority in Washington to make Broward a safer, less expensive place to live, raise a family, and retire. We cannot let Trump and DeSantis take away Broward County’s power. pic.twitter.com/q2BLHlX8Xx
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) May 22, 2026
But the 20th Congressional District is a majority minority district. The majority of the population remains in the newly drawn map.
“About 42% of the voting age population is Black, more than 23% is Hispanic and almost 4% is Asian, while 30% of voting age residents are White,” according to Florida Politics.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick represented the district until she resigned after the House considered expelling her following her indictment on embezzlement charges.
Congressional candidate Elijah Manley has been campaigning for the 20th District seat since February 2025, when the House Ethics Committee started its investigation into the allegations against Cherfilus-McCormick.
Cherfilus-McCormick filed for re-election and kept her FEC accounts open.
I doubt Manley is thrilled with Cherfilus-McCormick’s choice.
But Manley is furious with Wasserman Schultz:
“I’m not surprised that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is carpetbagging to FL-20, a black opportunity district, abandoning her own district and constituents,” Manley said.
“She is no different than the Republicans that are eviscerating black representation across the South. She is everything that’s wrong with the broken unpopular Democratic establishment. This ain’t Weston. I look forward to retiring her from public office permanently.”
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… https://t.co/ODZmKXb4IK
— Elijah Manley (@iElijahManley) May 22, 2026
Manley isn’t the only one:
Corey Shearer, president of the Broward Black Democratic Caucus, said at a county party meeting Tuesday night that mid-decade redistricting efforts across the South are eliminating districts that have historically elected Black lawmakers.
Too many “seats are being lost, and that’s why we’re standing up,” Shearer said. “We want to make sure that we don’t suffer in the consequence. … This is not about white or Jewish or this and that. This is just about Black folks standing up and saying, ‘Hey, we don’t want to lose a seat at the table just because somebody got hurt in another district.’”
Former Broward County commissioner Dale Holness lost primaries in 2021 and 2022 and is running again.
Holness said black voters aren’t happy with Wasserman Schultz: “Folks are upset, and that’s not good for a party at all to see the strongest element, the most loyal element of our party as upset and as angry and uptight as they are.”
But Wasserman Schultz has black friends:
Wasserman Schultz said she has a long record of championing issues important to the African American and Caribbean American communities.
“I think my candidacy is an opportunity for unity, not divisiveness,” Wasserman Schultz said. “I know how to represent diverse communities.”
“I have been a convener, as a Jewish leader, when there is a crisis, particularly one that affects other communities like the African American community and the Muslim community. I have been the one in our community, the elected official, that has brought diverse leadership together, ethnic and racial and faith communities together, to stand unified,” she said.
She was President Barack Obama’s handpicked chair of the Democratic National Committee from May 2011 until July 2016 and was one of the founders and is a current co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations.
“I have long and deep relationships with African American leadership in our (Democratic) caucus, and I have been right by their side, fighting to stand up for the values that our community cares about.”
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“This is not about white or Jewish or this and that. This is just about Black folks standing up and saying, ‘Hey, we don’t want to lose a seat at the table just because somebody got hurt in another district.’”
But this is about “white or Jewish or this or that”
These people contradict themselves over and over again.
I am so over identity politics.
Of course it is, grifters only know their grift and can only put a thin, transparent veil over their one card to play.
Wasserman Schultz said. “I know how to represent diverse communities.”
“After all, I speak jive,”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6TraLJf6iw
I’m old enough that Barbara was one of my TV moms growing up. Seeing this scene when the movie premiered was nearly a fatal incident for me I laughed so hard.
The distance between “E pluribus unum” and “Broward Black Democratic Caucus” can only be measured in light-years.
DWS is about as bad as politicians get – and there’s plenty of competition – but if the person who replaces her is interested in racial balkanization, things will get no better.
This isn’t about DWS’s replacement. She will be replaced by a Republican, which is why she’s looking to switch districts. She’s looking to replace the crook, Cherfilus-McCormick, and she’s got some race hustlers upset.
Again the Dems really do not care about black representation in Congress, they care about Dem representation in Congress and if they end up with less black reps but more dem reps they are happy with that.
Of course. And that’s how it should be. Even from the Dem point of view, it’s about representation of minorities, not about representation by members of minorities.
Why don’t we just nominate chieftains from the local community if the only thing that matters is race? Truly.
And frankly, this woman has probably done more for black Americans on the whole than an entire generation of black fathers, just by virtue of being a bleeding heart dem. Saying you’re “losing a seat at the table” because your representative MIGHT be a self-flagelating white woman (your greatest champion) instead of a black person is asinine.
Why dont we nominate solid conservative Hispanic or black candidates in these new districts and put the Democrat talking point to rest for good.
Because…shut up! That doesn’t work…or something, something Dem plantation grumbles.
I thought DEI was bad but you still want to play the games of race hustlers?
Because this is a solid Democrat seat. The majority of voters in the district want a Democrat to represent them, regardless of race. Debbie Washerwoman Shultz is actually well qualified to represent their interests, if they want her. And that’s what the primary is for — to see whether they want her. So it’s stupid to say that she shouldn’t run.
All currently filed republicans candidates for the seat are African Americans. Two men and one woman .
That being sad, it is still a D+22 electorate in the redrawn district. Down from D+25.
This isn’t a black, white, Hispanic, Jewish issue… it’s a cash issue, and she has cash.
Dissapointing, as I was so looking forward to her being gone.
I believe you will proven wrong. The reason is that blacks feel they have been so mistreated by Republican states that they are going totally tribal and will only elect another black, not any other person of any race even though they would probably do a better job.
Yah the stupid one’s will vote solely based on race… no one has treated blacks worse than black democrat elected officials
That’s (D)ifferent.
Leftists: Republicans are bringing back Jim Crow, suppressing the black vote.
Reality: Leftists bring in white women to suppress black candidates.
And just like that…. A ‘white’ woman who also happens to be Jewish is no longer a minority. IMO this encapsulates the resistance to DEI/CRT right here. When it was only ‘straight’,’white’, ‘Christian’ Men being sent to the losers bracket in the diversity olympics there was less pushback. Once the BDS/pro ‘palestinian’ nonsense and DEI/CRT kicked off in earnest… other tribal groups found themselves sent to the losers bracket as well ….and those group identities who had previously been beneficiaries of the diversity olympics began to see the drawbacks. Obviously that’s not true for everyone and some glaring exceptions exist …but I suspect it holds true for many who only saw the light when the HR department made them sit down, shut up, listen to some goofy DEI ‘trainer’ explain why they were privileged, colonizers, oppressors who were being passed over for promotion for a member of a ‘disadvantaged’ group. Especially in context of the BLM riots and tranny nonsense running simultaneously.
You heard it from the black man. Black folk are uptight!
So, what this article doesn’t explain:
“Wasserman Schultz had no choice since the new map eliminated her district.”
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz is carpetbagging to FL-20, a black opportunity district instead of running in her own.”
If both these things are true, then she lives outside FL-20. So why doesn’t she have the “choice” to run there?
That would be interesting to know, if her residence just happens to fall in the boundaries of the re drawn FL 20., or if much of the new district was covered by her old one.
Or choose NOT to run for Congress again.
I really don’t like the framing of the plight of Wasserman Schultz where it’s reduced to a version of ‘musical chairs’ under the (false) presumption that Wasserman Schultz is somehow entitled to place on the ballot in some/any FL CD based on previous election to HoR. Eligible to run? Sure, but that describes a universe of potential candidates far beyond Wasserman Schultz.
Why shouldn’t she have the choice? She lives in Florida. There’s no requirement that a representative live in her district.
But there is a political expectation that she will, so if she wins the nomination she will surely move into the district before the election. Not because she will have to, but because it will be expected of her.
What does it say about our political situation that out of the top dozen lede photos at LI right now — with the exception of Spencer Pratt, an Obama judge, a dead jihadi, and Vegetable Joe — every one that features a person depicts a crazy white woman?
(Not even counting the crazy black woman behind the Potted Potus.)
She should just announce that she’s transitioned and now identifies as black.
Problem solved.
I bet there are pronouns for this!
Debbie Cheez-Whiz Hair needs to just GO AWAY. Can’t somebody just throw a bucket of water on her already so she can melt?
DWS is a major PIA who suffers from TDS. Don’t forget she was the one who hired the two Pakistani brothers who exfiltrated huge amounts of classified data while being entrusted as the IT guys for Congress. That got swept under the rug when it should have resulted in her expulsion from Congress.
Don’t forget that, in addition to the Awan brothers, she was also head of the DNC when they rigged their primary process (you’re shocked, I know) to give Hillary the nomination in 2016, in blatant violation of their own by-laws, screwing Sanders out of it. She ended up resigning as head of the DNC in disgrace literally on the eve of their nominating convention in the aftermath of the Wikileaks email leaks. Hillary lost and Bernie ended up with millions to just bend over, accept the L, and shut up about it. (I think he bought another house.)
How’d that last black congresswoman work out for you? What a bunch of idiots. DWS is a pathetic human being but she should be able to run anywhere. Steel sharpens steel. All they want is walkover elections.
I live in SC but looking at FL the reason Wasserman-Schultz is moving to run in the new district is that her regular district is more Republican and the 20th is more Democrat. She does not want to stay in the old district and lose. Dems do not care about people just about their position in Congress.
Why should she stay in her old district and lose? How would that show caring about the people?
She is everything that’s wrong with the broken unpopular Democratic establishment.”
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an accurate observation–listening to her speak / perusing her ” record ” and is evident ” what ” she is–still, her hubris is breathtaking
and true to form, she doesn’t give a damn what her ” constituents ” think or want–like clinton, her thin veil of ” concern ” does not disguise the lust for power and control that rules her
truly nauseating and despicable
Come on, Man! Give Debbie a break. She’s gotta do this. She doesn’t have the intellect or skills to make a living through productive labor. With nothing to contribute to society, she is forced to live parasitically at the Federal Trough.
Can’t wait for the DWS rendition of the “I’m in no wayzz tahred” speech. Should be as compelling as when H!llary!–> did it in that black church!
This whole fuss rests on a basic misunderstanding of what “majority black” districts are for. Even from the racist point of view that created and championed them for so long, their purpose was never to elect black representatives; it was to elect representatives who will represent the interests of black people.
The premise was that black and white people have different interests, and therefore someone elected by white people can’t represent the interests of black people. Thus for black people to get their interests represented districts must be created where they’re a majority, so they can elect someone — black or white — to represent them.
Thus the whole fuss about Steve Cohen being white is stupid. The black voters of his former district support him and repeatedly elected him, because they believed he was the best person to represent their interests, while the black Republican woman who ran against him would not.
Likewise in this district, if the “minority” majority of voters in that district think DWS is the best person to represent their interests then they will vote for her, and if they don’t they won’t. If she would have won the primary, then telling her that she can’t contest it means depriving the black voters the chance to choose the representative they think will best represent their interest, which is precisely what “majority black” districts were supposed to prevent!
(Of course in this case the district wasn’t deliberately drawn with a “majority minority”; it just happened to work out that way. That doesn’t change the analysis, since the people making the complaint support deliberately drawing such districts, and are upset that that can no longer be done.)
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