Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) won renomination to a U.S. House seat, this time in Florida’s newly redrawn 25th Congressional District, on Aug. 18, defeating Oliver Larkin, a union organizer endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
Moskowitz currently represents the 23rd District. He ran in the 25th after Florida’s Republican-led legislature redrew the state’s congressional map this year at the call of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Moskowitz received 28,294 votes, or 63.47 percent. Larkin received 16,284 votes, or 36.53 percent, out of 44,578 cast.
“Tonight, Democratic voters sent a clear message. Thank you for your faith in me,” Moskowitz wrote in a post on Facebook.
In a separate post on X the morning after the election, Moskowitz described Larkin’s concession call.
“When I first got elected to city commission at the age of 25 my opponent never called me and conceded,” he wrote. “Instead they contested the election and voted against certification. Last night [Larkin] called me and we had a good conversation. This is how democracy works.”
Larkin said his campaign drew more than 500 volunteers and nearly 23,000 donors, knocked on more than 40,000 doors, and made more than 750,000 calls.
“Our movement has never been about one person or one election,” Larkin wrote in a lengthy post on X. “It is about building a popular mass movement for the issues that make a material difference in people’s lives: Medicare for All. A living wage of $25 an hour. Universal childcare. Paid family and medical leave. Free college. A Green New Deal. Abolishing ICE. Abolishing college loan and medical debt.”
He also said he had called Moskowitz following his win.
“Earlier this evening, I called Rep. Moskowitz to congratulate him on his renomination and shared my support to keep FL-25 blue in November to help win a Democratic House majority and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker,” Larkin wrote.
“Our points of disagreement are strong, but my desire to keep this seat out of Scott Singer’s hands is stronger. I hope our nominee will do what is necessary to welcome our coalition into his campaign to earn every Democratic vote possible.”
Larkin campaigned in the final stretch alongside state Rep. Angie Nixon, who won the Democratic nomination the same night in the special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Nixon said earlier this year that she had joined the Democratic Socialists of America.
Former Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer won the Republican nomination with 11,882 votes, or 31.39 percent of the 37,853 cast in a five-candidate field. George Moraitis finished second with 27.41 percent, followed by Dan Franzese with 25.64 percent, Joseph “Joe” Kaufman with 12.41 percent, and Raven Harrison with 3.15 percent.
“We’re just getting started. Onward to November,” Singer wrote in a post on X.
The National Republican Congressional Committee congratulated him in its own post on X.
“Floridians just chose an America First patriot & Mayor who voted to cut taxes, balanced budgets & created jobs to fight to lower the cost of living in Congress,” the committee wrote.
Moskowitz and Singer will meet in the Nov. 3 general election.
