State Representative Susan Valdes of Tampa announced Monday that she has switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, further increasing the GOP’s dominance in the Florida House.



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Democratic Florida state Rep. Susan Valdés is switching parties, which will extend Republicans' supermajority in the House.

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If last month's election wasn't painful enough for Florida Democrats, they're losing another state House seat after Rep. Susan Valdes announced that she's switching parties.

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Florida House Republicans expanded their supermajority by one seat after state Rep. Susan Valdes switched her affiliation from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. The move expands the GOP majority in the state House to 86-34 in the 120-seat chamber, making it the largest Republican majority in the Florida House, according to a statement from Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez. In a statement, Valdes said she didn’t want to spend the ne…

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Rep. Susan Valdes, who was reelected in Florida House District 64 as a Democrat last month, announced on Monday that she was switching affiliation to the Republican Party.
Valdes did not provide a specific reason for her decision, but the lawmaker said that she did not want to spend her final two years in the Florida Legislature “being ignored” by her party.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — If last month’s election wasn’t painful enough for Florida Democrats, they’re losing another state House seat after one of their members announced Monday that she’s switching parties. State Rep. Susan Valdés, a former school board member who was reelected as a Democrat last month, said on X that she is “tired of being the party of protesting.” Valdés ran to be chairperson for her local county’s Democratic executive c…

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Florida lawmaker’s party switch increases Republican supermajority in the House

We really shouldn’t be surprised by the depths that Republicans will go to in order to win a seat of power. As the entire country watches Donald Trump slowly transform his cabinet into an oligarchical Guess Who, politicians are scrambling to figure out how to make the most of what little time they have left in office—even if they’ve only just won their reelection. Reminding the rest of America that Florida is, in fact, a swamp, State Representat…

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A Florida state representative who was just re-elected as a Democrat has now switched her party affiliation to Republican.On Monday, state Rep. Susan Valdes took to X to announce the move. "Effective immediately, I will change my registration from a Democrat to Republican and will join the Republica...

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