Scott Singer, a former mayor of Boca Raton, won the Republican primary for Florida’s 25th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, setting up one of the most competitive House general elections in the nation.
Mr. Singer promised to be an ally to President Trump and campaigned on a voting record of cutting taxes. He was the mayor of Boca Raton for three terms, including a period of rapid development and population boom during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The district, which stretches along the Atlantic coastline from Miami-Dade to Palm Beach Counties, was redrawn to lean more toward Republicans.
Still, the general election is considered the most competitive in the state. The Cook Political Report rated it as Florida’s only tossup.
After Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz was drawn out of her district in a Republican gerrymander this year, she considered running in the 25th District. Doing so would have pitted Ms. Wasserman Schultz against Jared Moskowitz, a two-term congressman who is her longtime friend.
Ms. Wasserman Schultz, the state’s longest-serving Democrat in the House, chose instead to run in the 20th District, a safely blue and majority-minority district.
Mr. Moskowitz won the district’s Democratic primary on Tuesday in a competitive race with Oliver Larkin, a democratic socialist with national buzz.
