Socialist insurgency storms Trump’s backyard, with pro-Israel Democrats in crosshairs

The high-stakes battle between the left wing and the center-left establishment over the future of the Democratic Party takes the spotlight Tuesday in Florida, where a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) faces a more moderate incumbent Democrat who supports Israel.

After attention-grabbing left-wing victories this month by Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed and Minnesota Lt.

Gov.

Peggy Flanagan in crucial Democratic Senate nomination showdowns , and a major setback for the DSA with the defeat of DSA member Francesca Hong in Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary, the next faceoff in the party's civil war comes in Florida, which, along with Alaska and Wyoming, is holding primaries.

The Senate primaries in Alaska and Florida will set up crucial general election showdowns in the fight for control of the chamber.

Floridians will pick the major party nominees in the race to succeed term-limited Gov.

Ron DeSantis, while longtime Democratic Rep.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is fighting for political survival against a socialist candidate in a dramatically altered congressional district.

But the primary grabbing the most national attention is in Florida's 25th District, where DSA-endorsed Oliver Larkin is challenging the more moderate Democratic Rep.

Jared Moskowitz in a key congressional swing district that's among roughly two dozen House seats that will determine whether Republicans hold onto their razor-thin majority in the midterm elections.

DEMOCRATIC GROUP LAUNCHES $15 MILLION WAR ON DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS: 'MORTAL DANGER' The 33-year-old Larkin, a veteran of Sanders' 2016 Democratic presidential campaign, is the only DSA-endorsed House candidate running in a crucial congressional swing district.

Larkin says he supports abolishing the U.S.

Senate, arguing in a Fox News interview that it's an "undemocratic institution," and has referred to Israel's ruling coalition as a "religious supremacist regime." Moskowitz is a strong and vocal supporter of Israel and has advocated for robust U.S. military and security assistance.

The two-term federal lawmaker, a former state representative and Florida emergency management director, is running for re-election in the state's newly redrawn 25th Congressional District , a Broward County-anchored swing seat in the southeastern corner of the one-time battleground state that has leaned red.