Key takeaways from action-packed primary election night in Florida

Rep.Byron Donalds secured the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday night in one of several major races that were on the ballot in Florida’s primary elections. Results came in fast and furious in the Sunshine State, where one House incumbent was unseated, several others fended off insurgent primary challengers and a Democratic Senate hopeful was dealt a stunning defeat by a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Here are five takeaways from another action-packed primary night.Reps.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Jared Moskowitz and Randy Fine (R-Fla.) made it through to the general election despite facing opposition from the extremist flanks of their respective parties. Wasserman Schultz’s bid for a 12th House term will continue after she soundly defeated four opponents in Florida’s 20th Congressional District Democratic primary, including progressive activist Elijah Manley, who chided her for running the majority-minority district.Wasserman Schultz, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee, opted to run in the 20th District — which is more than 60% black and Hispanic — after state Republicans reconfigured her former district, making it more GOP-friendly. Meanwhile, Moskowitz triumphed over socialist challenger Oliver Larkin in Florida’s 25th Congressional District Democratic primary, marking another setback for the left-wing of the party. Moskowitz, a two-term incumbent and one of the most prominent Jewish Democrats in the House of Representatives, was backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), while Oliver was endorsed by far-left streamer Hasan Piker and former Bronx and Westchester Rep.Jamaal Bowman (D-NY). In Florida’s 6th District GOP primary, Fine easily turned back a challenge by far-right influencer Dan Bilzerian, who suggested in one campaign ad that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler needed to be reassessed.Bilzerian, who referred ...