The Florida TEA Party is struggling in early results.
Republicans in Florida’s 8th congressional district worried that TEA candidate Peg Dunmire, who had spent a significant amount of her own funds on her campaign, would derail their hopes of unseating combative freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson. But it seems those concerns were unwarranted.
Grayson is losing to Republican Dan Webster by 20-points, with Dunmire collecting only about 4% of the vote.
In District 12, Republican Dennis Ross is leading Democrat Lori Edwards by 5-points, with TEA candidate Randy Wilkinson capturing a little more than 12%. Wilkinson is an elected County Commissioner, the party’s lone office-holder.
The party’s lone statewide candidate, Ira Chester, is polling near 4% for Commissioner of Agriculture. With more than half the votes counted, Chester has soared past the 100,000 vote mark… capturing over 108,000 ballots.
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