Morning Digest: Florida Democrats land candidate against congresswoman Trump wants purged

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● FL-15: Hillsborough County Commissioner Pat Kemp announced Friday that she would challenge freshman Republican Rep. Laurel Lee, a move that gives Democrats a credible candidate in a Tampa-area constituency that Donald Trump took by a small 51-48 margin in 2020, according to calculations by Daily Kos Elections.

Kemp told the Tampa Bay Times that Trump's recent call for "great MAGA Republicans" to challenge Lee, who was the only member of Florida's congressional delegation to endorse Gov. Ron DeSantis' doomed presidential bid, was one reason she decided to get in. "That does play into everyone’s interest in looking at this as a winnable seat," the commissioner said of the 15th District, which, like the state as a whole, swung hard to the right in 2022.