$20 Million Super PAC Campaign Targets Florida GOP in Redistricting Session

A top super PAC aligned with House Democrats announced on Thursday it will spend $20 million to target potentially vulnerable Florida Republican members of Congress, Fox News reported. House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said the $20 million spending move is 'making it clear that we're on offense.'

Jeffries, a congressman from New York, referred to the redistricting as 'dummymander,' a play on gerrymander. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a two-term governor of Florida, added 'Please. Be my guest.' He continued, 'I’ll put you up in the Florida governor’s mansion.'

The exchange between Jeffries and DeSantis centers on congressional redistricting. A special legislative session of the Florida legislature is scheduled for next week, getting underway on Tuesday.

House seats. No proposed maps have been circulated yet to Florida state lawmakers. Republicans currently control 20 of 28 congressional districts in Florida. Florida changed House district lines four years ago.

It is illegal under the Florida state constitution to draw maps for partisan gain, known as gerrymandering. The GOP suffered setbacks earlier this year in special legislative elections in Florida. Jeffries told reporters 'Our message to Florida Republicans is, ‘F around and find out,’' referencing next week's redistricting legislative session.

Jeffries said the redistricting move would lead Democrats to increase their target list of vulnerable Florida House Republicans.

Florida is the latest battleground in a broader showdown over congressional redistricting. President Donald Trump floated the idea of mid-decade congressional redistricting last spring. Trump said last summer about his plan to add Republican-leaning House seats 'Texas will be the biggest one. And that’ll be five.'

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called a special session of the GOP-dominated state legislature to pass a new congressional map. Democratic state lawmakers in Texas broke quorum for two weeks by fleeing the state to delay the passage of the redistricting bill.

Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms during Trump's first term. California voters passed Proposition 50 in November 2025. Proposition 50 temporarily sidetracked California's nonpartisan redistricting commission and returned power to draw congressional maps to the Democratic-dominated legislature.

Proposition 50 is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California. Republican-controlled Missouri, Ohio, and North Carolina have drawn new congressional maps. A Utah district judge rejected a congressional district map drawn by the state's GOP-dominated legislature late last year and approved an alternate map.

The alternate Utah map will create a Democratic-leaning district. Republicans in Indiana's Senate shot down a redistricting bill in December that had passed the state House. Virginia's Democrat-supported redistricting referendum passed by a narrow three-point margin this week.

The Virginia referendum, if it clears legal hurdles, could give the Democrat-controlled legislature temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election, rather than the current nonpartisan commission. Democrats currently hold a 6-5 edge in Virginia's congressional delegation. The Virginia referendum could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia's congressional delegation.

Early voting for the Virginia redistricting referendum occurred on March 31, 2026, at the Ellen M. Bozman Government Center in Arlington, Va. Signs urged early voters to vote yes or no on the Virginia redistricting referendum at the Ellen M.