Florida was once the nation's largest general election battleground state. But following overwhelming victories by DeSantis and Rubio in 2022, the onetime purple state is now red
2024 Republican candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis criticizes ‘Bidenomics,’ government corruption and foreign energy on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’repeatedly points towards his overwhelming gubernatorial re-election last November and his hand in turning what was not long ago the nation’s most populous battleground state into a solidly Republican bastion.from being a swing state to being a red state," DeSantis recently touted on the campaign trail.
Former President Barack Obama narrowly carried the state in 2008 and 2012, and former President Trump captured Florida’s 27 electoral votes by lower single-digit margins in his 2016 White House victory and his 2020 re-election defeat. Four House Democratic incumbents also went down to defeat, as the GOP expanded their congressional majority in the state. Republicans also increased their already sizeable lead in the state legislature, securing a super majority, and Democrats were shut out of all statewide offices for the first time since Reconstruction a century and half ago.
DeSantis noted that due to the migration,"the political orientation of it actually turned out pretty good." "In 2018, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by nearly 300,000. By Election Day 2022, Republicans outnumbered Democrats by 300,000. Today, we can announce that Republicans outnumber Democrats by 400,000," DeSantis touted in a February tweet."Freedom is here to stay."
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