BY: NATE COLTON | Political Correspondent | BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Super PACs are making last-minute buys in the re-election campaigns of incumbent Reps. Lois Frankel and Jared Moskowitz, both of whom face progressive primary challengers this year.
Lois Frankel currently represents Florida’s 22nd Congressional district, but is running for re-election in the 23rd after Republican-led redistricting. Protect Progress, a pro-cryptocurrency super PAC affiliated with Fairshake PAC, just spent more than $50,000 on campaign mailers, an FEC report reveals. In this year’s Democratic primary, Frankel faces lawyer Victoria Doyle, a first-time candidate. Doyle supports a $25 minimum wage and Medicare for All, among other progressive policies. Frankel and Doyle will debate this Thursday at 7:00 PM at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches in a forum hosted by the Palm Beach County Democratic Party. FL-23 covers parts of West Palm Beach, Lake Worth Beach, Boynton Beach, and Delray Beach. The district is heavily Democratic, and the winner of the primary will have a strong advantage in the general election this November.
Jared Moskowitz serves Florida’s 23rd district and is running for re-election in the 25th district. New Democrat Majority, a PAC linked to Congress’s New Democrat Coalition of pro-business and centrist Democrats, recently dropped $250,000 on campaign ads for Moskowitz. Think Big PAC, a pro-AI super PAC linked to OpenAI and Palantir, also spent over $300,000 on digital ads, ad production, and text messaging. Moskowitz is competing against democratic socialist Oliver Larkin, who supports Medicare for All, ending all military aid to Israel, abolishing ICE, and tuition-free public college.
The Larkin campaign recently released a poll conducted August 5th by the Center for Strategic Politics showing Moskowitz with only a two-point lead over Larkin, with 22% of voters still undecided (for comparison, another of Larkin’s internal pollsters showed him at 7% this May). The poll shows Moskowitz with a strong advantage over Larkin among those who had already voted, though Larkin has a ten-point lead over Moskowitz among those who haven’t yet. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel group that heavily funds Moskowitz’s campaign, is extremely unfavorable in the district; 43% of voters are less likely to vote for a candidate supported by AIPAC, compared to 15% who are more likely and 42% who are neutral or don’t know. 68% of voters also support conditioning or ceasing military aid to Israel.
Larkin is more favorable than Moskowitz in every polled gender, age group, ethnicity, and county. The district is a narrow coastal strip, including parts of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties. It is now classified as a toss-up following Republican redistricting, though polling finds it still leans slightly Democratic.
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