In a huge win for Republicans, the Florida Legislature has approved of Gov. DeSantis’ new Congressional map!
Here’s the moment it passed in the Florida Senate:
🚨 BREAKING: FLORIDA SENATE PASSES the 2026 Ron DeSantis-drawn Congressional map, headed to his desk for SIGNATURE
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This means the GOP stands to gain +4 seats in the Sunshine State alone! 🇺🇸
Florida is RED — MAKE IT LAW! pic.twitter.com/NxXpSIRoXJ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 29, 2026
The redistricting move will likely add four more Republican seats ahead of midterms.
It’s now headed to Gov. DeSantis’ desk for final approval.
CBS News shared the details:
The Florida Legislature on Wednesday approved a new congressional map proposed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that aims to give Republicans four more seats as the party seeks to maintain control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.
The bill now goes to DeSantis’ desk for final approval. The votes happened hours after the Supreme Court narrowed a section of the Voting Rights Act, which could result in Republicans nationwide working to redraw congressional districts with a majority of Black or Latino voters that tend to favor Democrats. At least one of the districts that DeSantis had redrawn was a majority Hispanic district in central Florida.
Florida is currently represented in the U.S. House by 20 Republicans and seven Democrats, with one Democratic-leaning seat vacant after Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned earlier this month. DeSantis’ proposed map aims to eliminate or shrink Democratic-leaning districts in Tampa, Orlando and parts of the state’s southeast coast.
The Senate voted 21-17, with four Republicans and one independent voting with all the Democrats.
As you might have guessed, Democrats are not too happy about the new map…
When it passed in the House today, Democrat representatives actually started shouting out in protest.
Listen to this reaction:
🚨 JUST IN: The Florida House has OVERWHELMINGLY PASSED Governor Ron DeSantis’ new Congressional maps, which would add up to 4 new Republican US House seats, 83-28
Democrats literally started SCREAMING when it passed 🤣
It now moves on to the Senate.
Keep pushing! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/GIBiTp5hTJ
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 29, 2026
One Democrat Florida House member, Rep. Angie Nixon from Jacksonville, took things even farther.
Prior to the vote, she had a total freak-out on the House floor, grabbing a bullhorn and storming around yelling at people.
Watch for yourself:
As the Florida House approved the @GovRonDeSantis map with new congressional districts– Rep. @AngieNixon grabbed a bullhorn and protested the passage on the floor.
"This is a violation of the constitution," Nixon shouted. Here's the clip: pic.twitter.com/01iuWl17uR
— Forrest Saunders (@FBSaunders) April 29, 2026
As it turns out, this crazy lady is running for the Senate.
She tried to use the pink bullhorn to delay the final vote, but her efforts did not work, in the end.
The New York Times reported further:
In a chaotic scene as the vote began, State Representative Angie Nixon, a Jacksonville Democrat who is running for the United States Senate, protested on the House floor. Dressed in a bright jumpsuit and holding a magenta bullhorn, she walked up and down the center aisle.
“It is out of order!” she yelled about the vote. “You are violating the Constitution!”
Democratic state representatives had asked to delay the vote so that they could read the Supreme Court decision, but Republicans in the chamber disagreed. Across the Capitol in the State Senate, the Republican Senate president did call for a brief break so that lawmakers could digest the decision.
What a lunatic!
Rep. Nixon didn’t get the response she wanted from her little tantrum.
But, she is getting quite the reaction on social media:
Classless. Uncivilized. Absolute clown show 🤡
— Luca Taner (@LucaTaner) April 29, 2026
Operation let them speak. She probably swung a couple votes to yea's with that childish outburst! 😅🤣🤣
— Archive_99 (@Archive_991776) April 29, 2026
What a whack job… they should have removed her from the floor. Geez 🙄😬
— Letitrayne_Salt (@leti19285) April 29, 2026
Notably, the new Florida congressional map passed on the same day that the Supreme Court made a massive ruling that opens the door for more states to follow suit and re-draw districts before midterms.
We covered the full scoop on that here:
HUGE: Supreme Court Issues Major Ruling that Could Decide the Midterms
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