• NY-Sen, NY-14: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ended whatever lingering speculation there was about a 2024 Senate run on Thursday by announcing she would seek a fourth term in her safely blue 14th Congressional District. Last spring, a spokesperson for AOC didn't quite rule out the idea that she'd challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary, but no one appears to have seriously discussed the idea over the ensuing months.
• ND-Gov: Retiring Gov. Doug Burgum endorsed Lt. Gov. Tammy Miller on Wednesday in the June Republican primary to replace him. Miller previously served as Burgum's chief operating officer and was appointed lieutenant governor when the position became vacant just over a year ago.
• FL-27: Former Key Biscayne Mayor Mike Davey announced on Thursday that he would enter the August Democratic primary to take on Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in a Miami-area seat that Donald Trump narrowly carried in 2020.
Davey was first elected to Key Biscayne's Council in 2006 in a nonpartisan race but ran for a seat in the state House a decade later as a Republican, losing in the primary. Davey tells the Miami Herald he became independent following Trump's win and re-registered again as a Democrat in 2018, the same year he became mayor of his 14,000-person community on an island to the east of Miami.
Davey's congressional campaign launch comes about three months after Miami-Dade County School Board member Lucia Baez-Geller began her quest for the Democratic nomination. Salazar ended 2023 with a hefty $832,000 to $86,000 cash on hand advantage over Baez-Geller.
Florida's 27th District, which includes part of Miami and its southern suburbs, supported Trump by just a 49.9 to 49.6 margin in the last presidential election. According to analyst Matthew Isbell, though, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis took it 58-41 during his landslide reelection win in 2022, while Republican Sen. Marco Rubio won by a similar 57-42 spread.