NY Times: “On a steamy weekend in June, I went to St. Petersburg to report on the race for Congress in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. In a heavily gerrymandered and polarized country, it’s one of the few congressional races that the nonpartisan Cook Political Report highlighted as even vaguely competitive. They described the race as “likely Republican,” as Republicans typically receive six more points of the vote share than Democrats.
The district, which the first-term congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna represents, includes part of St. Petersburg and Pinellas County, and while the city of St. Pete is quite blue — I was there in the middle of a vibrant Pride Week — the surrounding county is much redder.
I was curious about the race because the front-runner in the Democratic primary at the time, Whitney Fox, is a perfect foil for Representative Luna. They’re both in their 30s, telegenic, married mothers of young children, both raised by single mothers.”