“There needs to be a real shakeup internally from top down,
bottom up, and I say that as a local party chair,” Bullard said. “At the end of
the day, there needs to be a more deliberate game plan on the message.”
Bullard later confirmed that he wanted to seek the chair
position for the Florida Democratic Party. But he is ineligible to run
after failing to win a county-level party office, which is a requirement for
state chair candidates.
On Wednesday, Bullard lost his bid for the Miami-Dade committeeman position to developer Stephen Bittel. Bittel is expected to enter the state chair race.
This is the second big election loss for Bullard this year.
Bullard, a FAMU alumnus, previously held the District 39
Senate seat from 2012 to 2016 and ran for the District 40 Senate seat in
November after the district maps were redrawn. He lost to state Rep. Frank
Artiles, a Republican.