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from: JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press
Posted: Nov 1, 2021 / 11:11 PM CDT
Updated: 11/01/2021 / 11:21 p.m. CDT
FILE – In this photo dated Aug. 9, 2021, Ohio Republican nominee for 15th Congressional District, Mike Carey speaks to supporters prior to a Republican club meeting in Powell, Ohio. Carey will face Democrat Allison Russo in the elections on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. (AP Photo / Jay LaPrete, File)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Both Democrats and Republicans launched their heavy hitters ahead of the special congressional elections in central Ohio as the parties attempted to raise the turnout in one of three out-of-year competitions on Election Tuesday.
President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence went into action to promote their party’s nominees in the race for Jan.
Pence stumbled on Saturday for Republican coal lobbyist Mike Carey, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump and preferred in the GOP learning district. Biden supported Democratic MP Allison Russo’s two-time term on Monday. Their open seat offer is believed to be the party’s most competitive in years, though it remains a long opportunity.
A second special election of Congress will take place in Cleveland’s 11th Congressional District. In this competition, Cuyahoga’s Democratic parish councilor Shontel Brown competes against Republican Laverne Gore, a business owner, consultant, and trainer for the old seat of Democrat Marcia Fudge. Fudge resigned to become Biden’s housing minister in March after nearly 13 years in Congress.
Brown, who defeated the ardent progressive Nina Turner in the August primaries, is considered an eye-catcher to win in the heavily democratic district.
Eleven Democrats are voting for the seat of Democratic MP Alcee Hastings, who died of pancreatic cancer in April, in Florida’s primary election on Tuesday. One of the candidates is Omari Hardy, who was three years old when Hastings was elected in 1992. Hastings was the longest serving member of the Florida Congressional Delegation.
While two Republican candidates are also running for nominations for the seat of the 20th district, the district is heavily democratic. The winner of the Democratic primary election will be suspended for the general election in January.
Voter turnout is expected to be low on Tuesday, and it is conceivable that the next member of the US House of Representatives to represent South Florida District can win the primary with 10% of the vote. The district is made up of 61% Democrats and approximately 13% Republicans. In the 2020 election, Hastings won 78.7% of the vote against Republican Greg Musselwhite. Musselwhite is running again for the GOP nomination against Jason Mariner.
State Senator Perry Thurston and former State Representative Priscilla Ann Taylor are also seeking the seat for the Democrats, along with Broward County Commissioners Dale Holness and Barbara Sharief, both of whom previously served as district mayors. Others on the Democratic ballot include Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Elvin Dowling, Phil Jackson, Emmanuel Morel and Imran Uddin Siddiqui.
The district is mostly black and includes parts of Counties Broward and Palm Beach. On the way to election day, of the more than 345,000 eligible voters, almost 33,000 Democrats and more than 4,000 Republicans had already cast their votes.
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Associated Press Writer Brendan Farrington of Tallahassee, Florida contributed to this report.
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