Along Florida's gilded southeastern coast, where the cost of simply living has become a quiet crisis for working families, Jared Moskowitz has won the Democratic nomination for the newly drawn Congressional District 25. His primary victory over Oliver Larkin reflects a recurring tension in democratic politics: whether change is best pursued through targeted, practical remedies or through broader structural transformation. In choosing Moskowitz, voters in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties have signaled, at least for now, a preference for the incremental over the sweeping — a mandate
Moskowitz wins Florida's District 25 Democratic primary on affordability platform
Affordability by far, is issue 1, 2, and 3
Mark
Why did affordability become the dominant issue in this primary rather than, say, climate or democracy?
Mimi
Because people in South Florida are drowning in immediate costs. Housing, insurance, healthcare—these aren't abstract policy questions. They're the difference between staying in your community or leaving.
Mark
But Larkin was also talking about affordability. So what made Moskowitz's version win?
Mimi
Moskowitz offered specific, achievable targets—restore the ACA credits, lower insurance costs. Larkin was talking about systemic overhaul. In a primary, voters sometimes prefer the candidate who sounds like they have a plan they can execute.
Mark
Did Moskowitz's focus on antisemitism and anti-immigrant sentiment suggest something about the district's demographics or concerns?
Mimi
It signals he's attuned to real tensions in a diverse, coastal district. Those aren't separate from affordability—they're often intertwined with economic anxiety.
Mark
What happens now that he's won the primary?
Mimi
He faces a general election in November. The primary told us what Democrats in the district care about. The general will tell us whether those issues resonate beyond the party base.
El Pulso
- South Florida's affordability crisis — soaring housing costs, crushing insurance premiums, and shrinking household margins — has reached a pitch that made it the only real subject of this primary.
- The race exposed a genuine fault line in Democratic thinking: Moskowitz's targeted fixes to the ACA and insurance costs versus Larkin's call for Medicare for All, universal childcare, and a structural overhaul of how wealth and housing are distributed.
- Moskowitz's campaign framing — affordability as issue one, two, and three — cut through with a directness that appeared to resonate more than Larkin's broader progressive vision in this particular electorate.
- With the nomination secured, Moskowitz now carries the weight of his promises into November's general election across a competitive coastal district where the promise of livability must be translated into legislative reality.
Along Florida's gilded southeastern coast, where the cost of simply living has become a quiet crisis for working families, Jared Moskowitz has won the Democratic nomination for the newly drawn Congressional District 25. His primary victory over Oliver Larkin reflects a recurring tension in democratic politics: whether change is best pursued through targeted, practical remedies or through broader structural transformation. In choosing Moskowitz, voters in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties have signaled, at least for now, a preference for the incremental over the sweeping — a mandate rooted not in ideology but in the urgent arithmetic of household budgets.
Jared Moskowitz has secured the Democratic nomination for Florida's newly drawn Congressional District 25, defeating Oliver Larkin in a primary fought almost entirely on the question of affordability. The district traces a ribbon of expensive coastal communities through Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties — places where housing costs, insurance premiums, and everyday expenses have become genuinely punishing for working and middle-class residents.
Moskowitz organized his campaign around three interlocking pressures: restoring enhanced ACA tax credits to make healthcare more accessible, tackling Florida's homeowners insurance crisis, and relieving the broader squeeze on household budgets. He also pledged to confront rising antisemitism and anti-immigrant sentiment in the district. Speaking to CBS News Miami, he was unambiguous — affordability was the first, second, and third priority.
Larkin offered a different prescription. His platform leaned into structural reform: Medicare for All, universal childcare, paid family leave, and major public investment in affordable housing. He targeted corporate influence in politics and aligned himself with democratic socialist candidates, arguing that incremental fixes were insufficient for the scale of the problem.
Moskowitz's win suggests that in this district, at this moment, voters favored his more targeted approach over Larkin's broader vision — though the competitiveness of the race confirmed that the underlying conditions driving both campaigns are real and urgent. He now advances to November's general election carrying a mandate built on the promise of making South Florida livable again.
Jared Moskowitz has won the Democratic primary for Florida's newly drawn Congressional District 25, a coastal stretch that weaves through some of South Florida's most expensive real estate. The district encompasses parts of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties—a ribbon of communities that includes Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Deerfield Beach, sections of Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, and Miami Beach. On Tuesday, he defeated Oliver Larkin to secure the Democratic nomination and a path to November's general election.
The primary was fought almost entirely on one terrain: the question of how to make life affordable in a region where housing costs, insurance premiums, and the basic expenses of living have become punishing. Both candidates made this their central argument, but they diverged sharply on solutions. Moskowitz built his campaign around what he called the three pillars of the problem. He wanted to restore the enhanced tax credits that had made the Affordable Care Act more accessible, to bring down the cost of homeowners insurance—a particular crisis in Florida—and to address the broader squeeze on household budgets. When he spoke to CBS News Miami, he was blunt about the hierarchy: affordability was issue one, two, and three. Beyond economics, he also pledged to confront rising antisemitism and anti-immigrant sentiment in the district.
Larkin offered a different diagnosis and remedy. His campaign embraced a more explicitly progressive platform: Medicare for All, universal childcare, paid family and medical leave, and a major public investment in affordable housing construction. He aligned himself with democratic socialist candidates and made corporate influence in politics a central target, calling for limits on political action committees. Both men were responding to real conditions—South Florida has become increasingly unaffordable for working and middle-class residents—but they were offering voters fundamentally different visions of how to fix it.
Moskowitz's victory suggests that in this particular district, at this particular moment, voters preferred his more targeted, incremental approach to affordability over Larkin's broader structural reforms. The primary was competitive enough that both candidates' focus on cost-of-living issues clearly resonated. Now Moskowitz moves forward to face Republican opposition in November, carrying with him a mandate built on the promise that he can make South Florida livable again for people struggling to pay their bills.
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You have to be able to afford your home, have affordable healthcare, and enjoy your ability to live in society. And so, affordability by far, is issue 1, 2, and 3.— Jared Moskowitz, to CBS News Miami
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