Jared Moskowitz Just Crushed Squad’s Handpicked Candidate — and His Victory Message Was Perfect

Florida’s FL-25 Democratic primary produced one of the clearest rebukes of the DSA’s takeover strategy all cycle: incumbent Rep. Jared Moskowitz defeated DSA challenger Oliver Larkin 63 percent to 36 percent — a landslide in a race Hasan Piker personally invested in and fundraised for. Decision Desk HQ called it at 7:08 PM. Piker’s fingerprints were all over Larkin’s campaign. The result couldn’t have been more decisive.

Moskowitz’s victory statement said everything: “I faced a challenge from the DSA. They threw everything at me and I didn’t change who I am or what I believe, and the voters overwhelmingly chose the independent-minded approach I’ve brought to Congress.”

His message to Hasan Piker after the results came in was two words: “My condolences.” Two words. Chef’s kiss-worthy.

The significance of this result deserves to be understood clearly — and in contrast with what the DSA accomplished elsewhere on Tuesday. Donavan McKinney beat a Hakeem Jeffries-endorsed incumbent in Detroit. A Hasan Piker-backed socialist beat a sitting congressman in a Detroit suburb. Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Senate primary by one point despite everything the establishment threw at him. The DSA had a very good Tuesday in several markets.

Florida was not one of them. Moskowitz won precisely because he refused to do what the DSA demanded. He refused to cease his support for Israel. He gladly accepted AIPAC money. He publicly called out the antisemitic hatred infecting his own party.