GOP 'anxiety' persists ahead of Florida special elections in Trump territory

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60% : Trump won the 1st District by 37 points and the 6th District by 30 points in November, according to election results from the NBC News Decision Desk.
57% : Trump himself has made it clear that the stakes are high.
51% : Fine declined to comment on his race, but Patronis said in a Wednesday interview that Trump is "laser-focused" on winning these special elections, noting that he spoke with Trump on Monday and gave the president an update on his campaign.
51% : Weil also noted that the 6th District has a sizable population of seniors who could be affected by cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
48% : Valimont lost to Gaetz in November, but said the conversation in the district has changed since then, amid cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs as part of the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency's effort to slash the size of the federal government.
44% : "I'm not running against them, I'm running against Randy Fine," Weil said, suggesting that Fine has centered his campaign on serving Trump.
42% : Weil also launched an attack ad against Fine, accusing Fine of supporting efforts to cut Medicaid funds and tying him to Musk's comments that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme," though the ad stops short of mentioning Musk by name.
41% : Both said Trump and the Republican Congress' early actions could push some GOP voters to their corners.
39% : Weil said he was spurred to run because, as a teacher, he was concerned about threats to the Education Department, which Trump is seeking to dismantle.
38% : They're looking at cuts to Medicaid and Medicare," Weil said.
32% : "Your vote in this crucial election will help determine whether the radical left will grind Congress to a halt, which is what they want to do -- just stop everything, all the progress that we've made, which is record setting," Trump said at a tele-town hall Thursday night for Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, who is running to replace former GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz in the 1st District on the Florida panhandle. Trump also held a town hall for tele-town hall with State Sen. Randy Fine, who is running in the 6th District on the state's eastern coast to replace former GOP Rep. Mike Waltz, who is now Trump's national security adviser.
25% : Running in seats Trump won handily, neither Valimont nor Weil have directly targeted Trump or Musk in their races, even as Democrats in next week's state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin make Musk an effective foil.

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