A Look At This Week's Special House Elections In Florida

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Races to fill two vacant seats in Florida's first and sixth congressional districts are getting a lot of attention. Despite Republicans having a long history of success in both, Democrats think they have a chance to keep things close — if not possibly to pull off major upsets. We look at who is running.

This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and national correspondent Greg Allen.

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1:05.1	I'm Deepa Chivaram.
1:05.9	I cover the White House.
1:07.0	And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.
1:10.1	And today on the show, we're looking at two special elections to the House of Representatives
1:14.2	that are getting a lot of attention. They're both in Florida. Voting in both of these races
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