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SAINT AUGUSTINE, Florida — Establishment Republicans here in Northeast Florida are scrambling after grassroots conservatives successfully took control of the Saint Johns County Republican Party and endorsed a slate of candidates against more establishment types inside the GOP.
Saint Johns County is one of two counties contained at least partially within the boundaries of the fifth U.S. congressional district in Florida. This district may represent the only opportunity anywhere in America this year for grassroots conservatives to, in a primary, take out an establishment Republican. Cook’s shocking and surprise victory at the local level paved the way for Macie’s chances at winning the seat. She still has an uphill battle—she’s being outspent big time as the establishment continues to fund Rutherford, albeit at lesser levels than many other establishment incumbents elsewhere nationwide—and a few weeks to go.
But the point is this is a Republican district. Democrats don’t stand a chance in November. Whoever wins the Republican nomination here is almost certainly going to win the general election. The Cook Political Report’s Partisan Voting Index rates this district as an R-plus-11, which means there is an 11-point GOP advantage over Democrats built into the registration numbers for voters here between Republicans and Democrats.
As such, because of how turbulent these actions have been to the old guard of the old establishment of the GOP here in Northeast Florida, loyalists to the old establishment—including Parham, who remains the vice chairman of the Saint Johns GOP after he lost to Cook—have been attempting to delegitimize the conservative victories locally. Some of them, including Parham himself, have taken to social media to repeatedly suggest that Cook is not the legitimate chairman of the Saint Johns County GOP.
Obviously, the state party is not endorsing in these races–the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida is just making clear that it views the chairman of the Saint Johns GOP to be the legitimate chairman and the actions he has taken in his time as chair to be legitimate too. But that simple confirmation will send shudders down establishment spines, for sure.
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