Dan Bilzerian is running in Florida's 6th Congressional District Republican primary while escalating antisemitic attacks against Randy Fine. Politicians from both parties have denounced the posts and ads, and the challenge lands against a candidate who won a special election last year to replace Mike Waltz.
Randy Fine in Florida
Speaker Mike Johnson called the attack ads against Fine in Florida's 6th District disgusting and said they should be condemned by political leaders on the Right and Left. He added that antisemitism and outward hatred of Jewish communities have no place in politics or in America.
Hakeem Jeffries described Bilzerian's campaign as hateful and blatantly antisemitic and said it shocks the conscience. Don Bacon, Ted Cruz, and Mike Huckabee also condemned the rhetoric, with Huckabee calling it possibly the most disgusting political thread I've seen.
Bilzerian's campaign rhetoric
Bilzerian's posts and ads have included references to Adolf Hitler and antisemitic tropes, according to the campaign material described in the facts. His campaign website also says he supports ending all foreign aid, including to Israel, and pushes the claim that Jewish special interest groups are running the country into the ground.
That combination puts Fine in a familiar contradiction. He is facing antisemitic attacks while his own record has drawn criticism for remarks about Muslims and Palestinians, including his February post on X saying, If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one, and his comment last July calling Ilhan Omar a Muslim terrorist after she called Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal.
Florida Republican primary
Fine said his February comment was in response to a post by Nerdeen Kiswani, who wrote Finally NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. He later posted, For context, this is the leader of one of the key mainstream Muslim groups that supported [New York City Mayor Zohran] Mamdani, after that exchange.
The race now centers on how much support Bilzerian has inside the Florida Republican primary, a question the available facts do not answer. What is clear is that the campaign has moved beyond a routine primary challenge and into a public fight over antisemitic rhetoric, with top leaders already taking sides on the language itself.
