Kathy CastorKathy Castor

Knowing that gun violence kills far too many Floridians every year, Representative Castor has worked to champion legislation in Washington DC to get military-style weapons off our streets, enhance background checks, and close dangerous loopholes in our federal gun laws. As a member of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, she has tirelessly pushed for action on this life-or-death issue.

Throughout her ten terms serving Tampa, Rep. Kathy Castor has been an advocate of the U.S.-Israel alliance. Castor backed supplemental security assistance for the Jewish state, and she has signed on to a letter advocating for continued security assistance to Israel without added conditions.

Incumbent

Republicans redrew this seat in an effort to defeat Rep. Kathy Castor, making her new seat one that Trump would have won by 10.5% in 2024. Castor, however, is well-known in the Tampa Bay region and outperformed Harris in her current district. Trump’s performance in 2024 overstates how Republican the district is—if the newly drawn district boundaries had been in place for the 2020 presidential election, Trump would have won by a narrow 2.8%, giving Rep. Castor a real chance to hold her seat in a favorable political environment.