Randy Fine Is Right for Florida-6 US House Seat – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

Conservatives are nervous about the prospects of keeping Florida’s Sixth Congressional District in Republican hands. Former Representative Mike Waltz left this seat in January to become President Donald J. Trump’s national security advisor. (Waltz is now ensnared in the so-called Signalgate matter.) State Senator Randy Fine is running for that post in Tuesday’s special election.

Trump walloped Kamala Harris in FL-6 — 64.5 percent to 34.5 percent. So, Fine’s victory should be a snap. But it’s not.

Thanks to Trump’s commanding re-election and his relentless pace of Right-wing reform since January 20, Democrats have been enraged, powered by hate, and eager to transform their bile into opportunistic electoral victories.

Meanwhile, fat and happy Republicans have been savoring the warm, runny DOGEness of it all. What could go wrong?

Plenty.

In last Tuesday’s special election, Democrats snagged a State Senate seat in a Pennsylvania district that voted 57 percent for Trump in November.

Back in Florida-6, high school math teacher Joshua Weil has forged Democrat fury into $10 million. Fine has gleaned just $987,000. The “smart money” has avoided a seat deemed “too safe to defend.”

“What you are seeing in Florida’s 6th District is the combined result of Republicans being complacent and Democrats being mad as hell,” Jacksonville-based GOP strategist Brian Graham of Americana Advisors, LLC tells me. “The Democrat has outraised the Republican tenfold and has been on TV for weeks with an ability to fund an effective grassroots turnout operation.”

Weil has made himself famous. A March 22-25 St. Pete Poll of 403 likely voters found Weil at 44.3 percent to Fine’s 48.3 percent, well within the 4.9 percent margin of error. As of Saturday at 5:00 a.m., county election officials report that early ballots delivered by party totaled 1.6 percent for minor parties, 13.6 percent non-affiliated, 38.5 percent Democrat, and 46.2 percent Republican.

Nothing should be this close in MAGA country.

Still, Fine has advantages.

• FL-6 brims with Republicans. Voter registration is 48.8 percent GOP, 25.6 percent Democrat, 22.4 percent non-affiliated, and 3.1 percent minor party. All Republicans must do to win is show up.

• Fine comes well-recommended. Atop widespread support among lawmakers in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., Trump loves Fine. “A Harvard Educated, Successful Businessman, and Highly Respected State Legislator, Randy has been an incredible voice for MAGA, and the Great People of Florida,” Trump crowed via Truth Social on November 23. “Randy Fine has my Complete and Total Endorsement. RUN, RANDY, RUN!”

• In Florida’s state legislature, Fine sponsored America’s most ambitious expansion of school choice. He chopped taxes, booted illegal aliens, and shielded the Second Amendment, scoring an A from the National Rifle Association.

• As the only Jew in Florida’s legislature for eight years, Fine earned the nickname “the Hebrew Hammer.” He put the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism into Florida law. Two of his bills to fight anti-Jewish hate were signed in Israel.

At the risk of unseemly bean counting, it would help the GOP to have another Jewish Republican on Capitol Hill. The 119th Congress includes Jewish GOP members Max Miller of Ohio, Tennessee’s David Kustoff, and Texas’ Craig Goldman. Welcoming Fine should accelerate, at least marginally, the Jewish exodus from the Democrat desert to the Republican oasis. Trump’s Jewish support swelled from 24 percent in 2016 to 30 percent in 2020 and 32 percent in 2024. Fine’s victory should fortify this trend.

Fine’s far-Left opponent is a self-styled socialist who argues that socialism can “take care of everyone.” As a U.S. Senate candidate in 2022, Weil said: “I think ONLY a socialist can win Florida.” If elected, his to-do list includes puberty blockers, slavery reparations, and Medicare for All. He also would “end U.S. military aid to Israel.”

Weil’s personal behavior also has become a campaign issue. As the Washington Free Beacon reported, school officials cited Weil on December 21, 2012 for “Threatening or abusive language/profanity.”

In a March 13, 2015 e-mail, a female colleague at Orange Youth Academy recalled Weil’s invasions of her privacy including this: “Back in January I left my office one day only to return and find that he had changed my screen saver on my computer to a picture of himself.”

That July 9, Weil was suspended for three days after he “grabbed student by neck, threw to ground, left bruise on student’s head,” according to a school incident report. Weil claims self-defense against a pupil he called “one of the smaller kids in the class.”

Clearly, a Weil win would jeopardize the entire MAGA project.

A Weil victory would electrify demoralized Democrats, just as they were lunging for the vodka and sleeping pills. Weil’s presence would make House Speaker Mike Johnson’s legislative needle threading that much tougher. The Louisiana Republican’s majority already is so scalpel-thin that Trump asked Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R–New York) on Thursday to keep her seat rather than become United Nations ambassador.

Imagine the dinosaur media’s unbridled glee:

“MAGA DOGEd: Dem win in hard-GOP district proves Trump has no mandate, and America hates him.”

“Fine Mess: Republicans lose seat Trump won by 30 percent. Is this curtains for his presidency?”

Such headlines would scare GOP members of both houses and spook the Jell-O-spined among them just enough to imperil the Big Beautiful Bill laden with Trump’s tax cuts, deregulation, “Drill, baby, drill,” and so many other promises.

Nevertheless, campaign consultant Brian Graham is cautiously optimistic: “The circumstances are not ideal for Republicans, and the results may be closer than we prefer, but State Senator Randy Fine should still win this solidly red seat. Republicans simply have to turn out their base, which has tended to vote closer to or on election day.”

With so much on the line, Republicans should deploy their biggest guns. Top administration figures should campaign with Fine as Tuesday’s vote looms.

President Trump should host an election-eve get-out-the-vote rally to propel Republicans, independents, and thinking Democrats to the polls.

As for grassroots conservatives, “Calling on folks to vote is critical,” Fine tells me. Also vital: From the Golden Gate to the Brooklyn Bridge, Trump supporters should visit VoteRandyFine.com and give as if the America First agenda depended on it.

​Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.