Florida’s newly redrawn 22nd Congressional District, stretching across portions of Broward, Palm Beach, Hendry, and Collier counties, features an open seat after mid-decade redistricting that produced mixed partisan results in recent cycles. Democrat Pia Dandiya and Republican Casey Askar each won their August primaries comfortably, setting up a contest rated a toss-up or lean Republican by forecasters. Recent polling shows the race within a few points, with one late-August survey giving Dandiya a narrow edge after candidate information. Substantial outside spending, including major Democratic advertising buys, has intensified attacks on Askar’s business record and Dandiya’s policy positions on taxes and healthcare costs. The close trader consensus reflects these balanced fundamentals, comparable candidate profiles as local figures with strong fundraising, and the absence of a decisive late-cycle shift in voter sentiment or turnout patterns across the district’s varied counties.