Jim Sciutto

To your point, if you go through most of the 2010s, this seat was held by a Democrat.

So you don't want to overstate it.

It's not, wow, Democrats have never won here before.

However, you also don't want to understate it.

The Republican who had that seat, who stepped aside when Ron DeSantis appointed him to another job so they had to have the special election, he won his last election by 20 points.

Donald Trump carried this legislative district in the presidential race a couple of years ago and then put it in the context of everything else that is happening.

Democrats are winning local elections everywhere throughout 2025 and now throughout 2026.

And they're doing it all over the map in rudely red states like Florida, in Georgia, in Mississippi, in Texas, in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

In November of 2024, they were winning big.

And so Democrats believe that they had a good year set up because it's a midterm year.

You have a Republican president.

His poll numbers are down.

They thought they had a good year, and they think actually as we start to move through the early spring here, the opportunities are getting even bigger and wider, broader, if you will.

On the government shutdown, Mr. Speaker, it seems as though Republicans and Democrats are talking past one another right now.

Is the only person who can solve this the President of the United States, and why isn't he involved?

I don't think he is involved.

He knocked down the plan yesterday.

Well, that's what's been reported, okay?

He said that in the audible office that he was not pleased with that point.

And we always have homeland funded as an entire department.