Hint: It ain't Donald Trump. It's not even a Republican. In fact, Elijah Manley aimed this barb at a member of the Democrat Party elite, and ... pass the popcorn.
Florida's going to the primary polls today, and we'll have live results in a post later this evening. The state has plenty of election drama, with an open gubernatorial seat and a special election to formally fill the rest of Marco Rubio's Senate term. However, the real drama will take place in House elections, where the Republican-dominated legislature redistricted in order to create four more Republican districts after the Supreme Court's decision in Callais v Louisiana.
That created a game of musical chairs as majority-black districts dwindled to one. And the person most likely to claim that sole remaining chair is probably former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who hopped into FL-20 to keep her place in Congress. Four black politicians oppose her, including socialist Elijah Manley, who accused Wasserman Schultz of racism yesterday while talking to NBC News (via Twitchy):
FL Socialist Elijah Manley says only a black Democrat should hold the congressional seat he's running for.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 17, 2026
"One of the last remaining opportunity districts that we have in the South being held by a white Democrat, that's unacceptable."
He's running against Debbie Wasserman… https://t.co/58ltSynaMA pic.twitter.com/4YFnUk92QS
He's running against Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Someone please ask her about this.
In fairness, people have been asking Wasserman Schultz about this since she decided to poach the FL-20 seat. Not everyone, of course; Hakeem Jeffries seemed pretty reluctant to deal with it in June, ignoring the race as he announced endorsements for other Democrats in House races. And for that matter, the media hasn't exactly been pounding on the door to get an answer from the former DNC chair about why she didn't run in a neighboring district where her palette might blend more easily. For the last two months, Wasserman Schultz has gotten a remarkably quiet ride from the Protection Racket Media.
The people in FL-20 have done most of the demanding. Manley isn't the only one of her opponents in this primary – all of them black – to suggest that the party seems a little racist in backing a white woman for its only "opportunity district." One of the others is Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who resigned earlier this year just before the House Ethics Committee was about to recommend her expulsion over a federal indictment for a $5 million COVID relief fraud. Luther Campbell, a former 2 Live Crew star, also publicly objected to Wasserman Schultz' move, and one can imagine that Dale Holness is none too happy about it either.
The problem for them is that none of them got out of the race for the others. The black vote in the district will likely get split significantly between all three, and that will work in favor of Wasserman Schultz. The only other option for these candidates is to distinguish themselves on policy. Manley has decided to do so by going The Full Mamdani, but perhaps with a half-lobotomy:
FL Socialist congressional candidate Elijah Manley says he doesn't want illegal aliens who enter the country with a murder charge to be deported.
Yes, he's serious:
"If you're a murderer coming to this country, put you in jail."
Says of deportation:
"Republicans want to give these folks a vacation."
MacCallum (in disbelief):
"That's ridiculous. I don't know what you're talking about. A vacation??"
This is the Democrat Big Tent.
Er ... wut? If they commit a murder in the US, then yes, we'd send them to prison for life here. We might consider deportation at some point, but only under significant conditions for continued detention. If an illegal alien comes into the country while wanted for a murder elsewhere, we'd deport them to the proper jurisdiction, not shelter them in the US. We would have no authority to send them to "jail" here without an actual criminal trial based on proper jurisdiction.
Manley seems to have a lot of problems with civics. In fairness, he's hardly the only socialist with a defective grasp on that subject, and it's increasingly part of the pattern.
There's another level to this as well: intersectionality. The tribalism of grievance politics has created several conflicts for Democrats in this cycle, from FL-20 to Bellevue, Washington, and to Wisconsin and Texas. In the latter, James Talarico now has to spend $25 million to get black voters to forgive him as a white male for defeating a black female in a fair Democrat primary. In FL-20, Manley is making the case that a white woman should not outrank a black male on the intersectionality scale designed to arbitrate conflicts between grievance groups on the Left. Even in Michigan, intersectionality may have been part of the reason why black voters in Detroit balked at Abdul El-Sayed and his obsession with Palestinians rather than their own causes. And El-Sayed won't have $25 million to spend on wooing those voters to support him in November, either.
For now, though, kick back and enjoy the infighting as Wasserman Schultz violates intersectionality rules and poaches the seat. Later, she'll claim to represent black voters better than the black politicians that opposed her, and that's also a long tradition in the Democrat Party. Stick with us tonight as we watch the results ... and the aftermath.
Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will determine the fate of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must maintain control of both chambers of Congress.
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