Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin will campaign in Florida’s sixth congressional district this weekend ahead of next week’s special House election.  Martin will hit the campaign trail with Democratic candidate Josh Weil in St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. Martin will also take p art in a roundtable with Latino leaders in Orlando, which is located outside of the district and leans more Democratic.  The Hill was the first outlet to report on Martin’s visit.  Democrats will face an uphill climb in Tuesday’s special election race in the sixth congressional district. President Trump and his National Security Adviser Mike Waltz both won the district by over 30 points last November.  However, Democrats say Martin’s visit is part of a long-term strategy to bolster the party’s standing across the country. Florida will mark the thirteenth state Martin has visited since being elected DNC chair in February. “I’m going to Florida’s 6th Congressional District this weekend as part of my Organizing Everywhere Tour because the stakes are too high for Democrats to not compete all across the map,” Martin said in a statement.  “Democrats have to walk and chew gum at the same time – that means looking at the elections in front of us while also building long-term political power. We can’t show up every four years and expect voters to hand us their votes. The DNC is making clear that there are no off years and we’re going to fight like hell for every vote everywhere,” he continued.  Once considered a quintessential battleground state, Florida has become the center of the Republican universe over the last ten years. President Trump won the state by 13 points in November and flipped traditional Democratic strongholds, including Miami-Dade and Osceola Counties.  Martin’s campaign stop comes amid growing interest in the race to fill Waltz’s former House seat. Weil has raised nearly $10 million, while his Republican opponent, state Sen. Randy Fine (R), has raked in just under $1 million.  Last week, the DNC announced it was making investments in the special elections for the sixth and first congressional districts. Elon Musk’s America PAC is also getting in on the action, spending roughly $10,200 for Fine in texting services. The super PAC is also spending the same amount for Republican candidate Jimmy Patronis in the first district.  Fine and Patronis have received endorsements from Trump, as well as Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).  “Randy has been working very hard on the campaign trail. Last week I joined him for a tele-town hall with thousands of voters in CD 6 where he shared his plans to work with President Trump to secure the border, support our military and fight for our great ally, Israel. Randy will win and every Republican needs to rally behind him because we can't have another radical socialist Democrat in Congress who will try to derail the president's agenda," Scott said in a statement. Despite the growing national interest in the race, Republicans and Democrats say Fine is the heavy favorite to win. However, Republicans and Democrats also note the race could likely be closer than usual.  “It’s a candidate-specific issue. I think the district is so overwhelmingly Republican that it’s almost impossible for someone with an R by their name to lose that district,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R ) told reporters this week. “So I would anticipate a Republican candidate is still going to be successful. Do I think they will get even close to the margins that I received or the president received? No.” A narrower margin in the district would give Democrats more fodder going into next year’s midterm elections, particularly after a string of victories and overperformances in special elections this year. Democrats saw one of their biggest upsets yet in the second Trump era on Tuesday when a Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania won an open state Senate seat in a major upset in a district that comfortably voted for Trump in November. ...read more read less