Since Reps. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) and Al Lawson (D-Fla.) were both elected to the House in 2016, the three-term congressmen from Florida’s Panhandle have been reliably and routinely partisan in canceling out each others’ votes.
On Nov. 8, voters in Florida’s reconfigured Congressional District 2 (CD 2) will cancel one of the pair’s return ticket to Washington.
The Dunn-Lawson contest is one of just two 2022 midterm general election clashes pitting sitting incumbents against each other.
The other is in Texas CD 34, where Reps. Mayra Flores (R-Texas) and Vicente Gonzalez, Jr. (D-Texas) are on the same ballot.
Rep. Al Lawson (D-Fla.) addresses supporters at an Oct. 22 rally in Gadsden County, one of 14 counties in the Congressional District 2, which was reconfigured after the post-2020 Census, forcing the three-term congressman to take on Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) in one of only two 2022 midterm general election races nationwide pitting sitting reps against each other. (Courtesy Al Lawson for Congress)
All signs indicate Lawson will be the odd man out after post-2020 Census redistricting orchestrated by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis fragmented his former district, CD 5, merging blue Tallahassee precincts, and his Tallahassee home, into Dunn’s deep red Panama City-based CD 5….