This is gonna be short, sweet, and yeah, it’s quite awhile since I’ve been around these parts. 13 days out, I have coagulated my political blood cells around one single antibody: Phil Ehr, running against Matt Gaetz in FL-01.
Wherever you live in America, on the evening of 11/3, pay VERY close attention to one congressional district in Florida, FL-01 (panhandle; Pensacola, Ft. Walton Beach, Destin, etc.). It was one of the reddest in America in 2016. I was there. I lived and reluctantly participated in the electoral disaster that unfolded.
In 2016, Trump was +24 in the district. Gaetz won his FL-01 US House seat in a rout.
But this is 2020. If Gaetz’s Dem challenger, the well-funded Dem Phil Ehr, can carry the district - or even get it to just +10 Trump - Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win FL, and Trump has no path to re-election. Serious about this.
Take a look at Phil Ehr's credentials. Gaetz won't debate him. Why not? I hope I've explained why, win or lose, FL-01 is one of the bell weather congressional districts in all of America. If you can chip in to push Phil over the line, please do. Phil doesn’t need Joe. Joe needs Phil.
www.ehrforcongress.com