House Democrat Straight Up Tells Fox News ‘Progressives Can’t Win’ Key Races

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) joined Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream over the weekend to discuss a variety of topics, including some of his fellow House Democrats protesting at an ICE detention facility and the future of his party.

As the interview wound down, Bream said, “Let me ask you about this. Back home in Florida, my home state, you have been taking some heat from the more progressive wing of your party, most recently for not showing up for this town hall that they had put together. One of the organizers said this, ‘We worked hard to get him elected and now he’s not answering questions.’”

“They say the crowd then booed, then somebody yelled primary him, then there was applause. Are you like many of your party, kind of caught in the middle between the old and the new guard, the progressive wings. Do you feel like the party has coalesced about who’s leading it and how you move forward?” she asked.

“Yeah, so first on that town hall wasn’t my town hall was a town hall the special interest group put on and they invited all three congress people from the area and none of them came. So, it wasn’t that I just didn’t show up, no one showed up from from Congress,” Moskowitz replied, adding:

You know, that being said, my district is a D-plus-two district. It’s a moderate district. I’m a moderate. I’m not a progressive.

I’ve never said I was a progressive, I have democratic values. I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I have fought for those values and I will continue to do so in Congress. But Democrats have to, like, get one thing straight. We need to win. This purity thing that we want to go through, that’s great if we want to continue to be in the minority. But if we wanna win, we gotta put people in seats that can win those seats.

We got Democrats in Trump seats. You can’t run progressives there. We’ll lose those seats and so look, we have a big tent. There’s room for all of these ideas in our party. But if were gonna make Hakeem Jeffries the speaker, it’s gonna run through districts like mine and 20 others where moderate Dems have to win. Progressives can’t win there.

“Well, 2026 already in full campaign mode. That is always fair to say,” Bream replied as she thanked Moskowitz for joining her show.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.