The MeidasTouch Podcast
The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the special election in Florida’s 6th Congressional District where a Democrat named Josh Weil could potentially flip a +30 Trump district and turn it blue. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Could Florida's 6th Congressional District turn blue?
Could a ruby red congressional district in Florida turn blue? Momentum seems to be gathering for the Democratic candidate in this special election. His name is Josh Weill. This from, of all places, Florida Voice. Democrats putting up a fight in Florida congressional district. Six early voting data shows where Republican, a very unpopular candidate,
Ultra MAGA Doge extremist by the name of Randy Fine is facing Democrat Josh Weill, who is a public school teacher. A massive cash disparity we're seeing as well as people are
really going to uh josh wheel's side here people are very nervous that uh this uh randy fine is going to dojify uh florida six congressional district we're seeing even people like steve bannon terrified this is what steve bannon said on his podcast the war room the other day let's play it was it florida six waltz's district trump won that district by 30 points in november
I'm old enough to remember when he won in November by 30 points. We have a candidate that I don't think is winning. That's an issue.
That issue he's talking about is, again, Randy Fine is a state senator in Florida. The seat being held by Waltz, who he was referring to, is Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, who you probably know best right now for the individual doing the fist bump emoji, American flag emoji thing.
flame emoji when leaking our war secrets and war information on a group text thread with others in the department of defense and within the uh department of national security um now let me show you over here just some uh videos of randy fine so you can see who he is randy fine is someone at uh at a here and why is also so unpopular at a there's a lot of reasons
At a hearing over women's reproductive health, he looked at the women and he said, if you dare even breathe, I'm going to have you arrested. Here, play this clip.
Sergeant staff has been pre-authorized to remove people. There will not be warnings. You'll be removed. If I can hear you breathe from my seat, that will be the standard. So I would encourage people to keep that in mind. We're going to have a hearing. We're going to hear from these folks. It's going to go for as long as it goes, and then we are going to be done. And don't test me.
I'm sure you won't like the outcome. All right, members.
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Chapter 2: Who are the candidates in the Florida special election?
I mean, dangerous, weird dude. But here's the thing, Josh. You know, we cover before some of these movements in Florida where there seems to be hope. And look, the early voting data is very good for you, leading in the first two days. If you factor in some independence, you know, there could be, I don't want to get people overconfident.
So I'm not even going to go through necessarily what the data is reflecting other than people need to go out and learn about you. But how are you really feeling? There are some people who go, we always get our hopes up thinking about a red district. I'm sure you get asked this before. What do you say to those people who were like, yeah, but it's still Florida. It was a plus 30 Trump area.
It's not possible. What do you say to them, Josh?
Yeah, I mean, look, it was a plus 30 Trump area because we had no real Democratic campaign here in the last three cycles. One of them, there was no Democratic nominee for this seat. And the other two, the congressional candidate was unable to raise more than $35,000 over the entire two-year stretch.
So, you know, it's really, it's like more like an R plus 14 when you look at the current voter registration data, which is a lot more winnable. You know, it's not that our message has been rejected in the past, it's that there was no one here getting the message out. Messaging isn't free.
you got to be able to build a real campaign to get out and talk to people and you know not only have we been able to do that but in his arrogance randy fine felt that he didn't have to he spent months not campaigning last month he was interviewed by a newspaper and they asked him
know what are the issues most important in the district and he's like i don't know he goes it doesn't matter he goes because i'm here to serve donald trump i don't need to know what issues are important to the people there you know he he took two months off um raised no money which i mean honestly we were surprised by we knew we were going to have out raised him because we were handling our business and getting our work done but
He didn't even try raising money for a future war chest for 2026. I mean, he did absolutely nothing. No outreach, no messaging, no building of a campaign, just hiding out in Tallahassee from the voters. And now he's scared. Now he's struggling. And we feel really good about it. I mean, look, there's a lot of Republican voters in this district, right? If they
There's definitely enough that if they overturn out, they can take this thing back from us in seven days. But right now we feel really good about where we're at.
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