Jacksonville Gets A Dem Mayor!

Guess who turned out to vote? Donna Deegan is the first woman to be mayor of Jacksonville, the 12th largest U.S. city.

Former TV anchor becomes mayor elect of Florida's largest city. Another defeat for the Republicans. The backing of Washed Up 45 and Florida governor Ron DeSantis did not help Republicans turn out the vote.

Donna Deegan, former First Coast News anchor and writer won flipping the longtime Republican-held city of Jacksonville to the Democrats.

AP projected that Democrat Donna Deegan defeated Republican Daniel Davis to succeed Mayor Lenny Curry (R), who is term-limited. Deegan, who will be the city’s first female mayor, won against Davis in a runoff on Tuesday after the two candidates advanced from a blanket primary earlier this year.

She ran on a platform of improving the city’s infrastructure, increasing access to health care for the city’s residents and bringing businesses to Jacksonville that “want to be part of growing a better, fairer, more inclusive city” and “value our increasing diversity.” 

Jacksonville with a population of 1.05 million residents is located in northern Florida. It is the county seat of Duval County. It is a consolidated-city with 96% of the county being Jacksonville with Jacksonville Beach, Baldwin, Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach being semi-autonomous towns.

MAGA candidates are losing. Republicans better moderate or face defeat.

Jacksonville and Duval County is Republican-leaning. The city and county went to Joe Biden over Washed Up 45. This was a 40 year flip. Mind you, 40 fucking years.

Duval County is somewhat conservative for an urban county, and it began moving away from the Democratic Party sooner than the majority of Florida counties. Despite the small Democratic plurality in registration, the county's Democrats are nowhere near as liberal as their counterparts in other large Florida counties, such as Miami-Dade and Orange. The county has only supported a Democrat for president three times since 1952, in 1960, 1976, and 2020.