Gov. Ron DeSantis took a victory lap this week after Florida lawmakers approved a new congressional map, mocking House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries with an impression that quickly spread online.
“We gon’ do MAXIMUM WARFARE against Republicans! Florida Republicans, you F around, you gonna find out!” DeSantis said, ridiculing what he called Jeffries’ threats to stop Florida’s redistricting push.
DeSantis followed it with a message to national Democrats who say they plan to pour money into the state to punish Republicans at the ballot box.
“He’s like, oh, if you do the redistricting, we’re going to take out all your members, we’re going to do all this stuff. And what I said was, go ahead, MAKE MY DAY.”
“You don’t think we’re going to, you want to come down here and spend money in Florida, roll the dice and take your chances.”
“But don’t think that you can come down here, issue threats to us, and somehow you’re going to make us FLINCH.”
“That is not happening, and in fact, it did not happen, because as soon as he came out and started doing that last week, Florida legislature turned around and they PASSED A NEW MAP.”
Florida Republicans pushed the map through early Wednesday, handing DeSantis a major win that could net the GOP as many as four additional U.S. House seats heading into the 2026 midterms.
🚨 LMFAO!! Gov. Ron DeSantis just mocked the CRAP out of Hakeem Jeffries, doing an impression of Temu Obama’s failed threats to block Florida redistricting
“We gon’ do MAXIMUM WARFARE against Republicans! Florida Republicans, you F around, you gonna find out!” 😭
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The state House approved the plan 83-28 after a brisk session that ended in under 90 minutes. No Republican spoke on the floor to debate the map.
Democrats did, and tempers flared as the vote approached. Democratic Rep. Angie Nixon of Jacksonville, who is running for U.S. Senate, interrupted proceedings, shouting that the proposal “was out of order.”
Across the rotunda, the Florida Senate prepared to take up the map later in the day, briefly pausing to review a fresh U.S. Supreme Court ruling out of Louisiana. The decision found lawmakers there improperly relied on race in drawing a new majority-minority district, a development Democrats argued should slow Florida’s process.
House Democrats tried to force a delay, but their motion was rejected on a voice vote.
DeSantis, who has argued for months that court action would trigger a redraw, pointed to the Louisiana ruling as validation.
“Called this one month ago,” the governor posted on social media. “The decision implicates a district in FL, the legal infirmities of which have been corrected in the newly-drawn and soon to be enacted map.”
If the Senate signs off and DeSantis signs the bill, Florida will join a growing list of states reworking congressional lines mid-decade. Republican-led states including Texas, North Carolina and Missouri have pursued similar moves, while Democrat-controlled states such as California and Virginia have also pushed map changes.
Democrats attacked Florida’s plan as openly political, pointing to testimony from Jason Poreda, a DeSantis staffer involved in the map’s design. Poreda acknowledged under oath that partisan data played a role in drawing districts, which Democrats say violates Florida’s Fair Districts Amendment, approved by voters in 2010 to ban partisan gerrymandering.
“The man who drew this map testified under oath that he used partisan data to draw up every single district,” said House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell. “Every single one. And when the governor’s attorney was asked whether Democratic voters were being underrepresented in our congressional delegation, his answer was, ‘That this is a normative question.’
“Members, if we vote yes on this bill, it’s not just that we’re being misled, we are blessing this mess. The timing tells the rest. The governor announces his intention to redistrict, shortly after the president of the United States asked Republican-led states to do exactly that. There is no neutral explanation for that sequence of events.”
Republicans, however, argued the new map complies with legal standards and positions the state for the next election cycle. The next step is Senate action, then DeSantis’ signature, which would lock in the lines for November.
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