Is Florida a lost cause for Democrats? gdebenedetti reports that the few Florida Democrats left in office insist that it isn’t … yet
’s second term as governor of Florida was less than a week old when a surprise letter from Manny Diaz, the chairman of the state’s Democratic Party, landed in the inboxes of his beleaguered colleagues. He was resigning.
The letter’s recipients needed no reminder of the situation’s urgency; few doubt at this point that Joe Biden will face a Floridian — either DeSantis or Donald Trump — in his upcoming reelection campaign. And it goes without saying, in this crowd, that Florida’s 30 electoral votes make it the crown jewel of swing states in presidential races. Yet Diaz’s finale was hardly rousing. “Maybe it is not always about trying to fix something that is broken.
Wasserman Schultz told me she had been given specific promises that Florida remains an electoral target by leaders within both the White House and the Democratic National Committee, which she ran between 2011 and 2016. Maxwell Frost, the 26-year-old who became the youngest member of Congress last month, said he’d directly asked DNC chairman Jaime Harrison about his plans for Florida at a recent event, and that he’d gotten some reassurance.
This dire circumstance was cemented by November’s elections. Democrats around the country celebrated dodging an expected red wave; it still crashed down in Florida, where DeSantis expanded the victory he earned in 2018 by less than half a percentage point to the widest margin of victory in a Florida gubernatorial race since 1982. The results looked like what pols had once expected from the country as a whole: Republican turnout hardly surged, but Democrats were hard-pressed to vote.
For his part, Biden has kept more of an eye on the state than widely known. He privately asked to be kept apprised of the state’s races throughout the midterms even as he acknowledged the gubernatorial and senate races were uphill climbs, according to people who spoke with him at the time, and he returned there repeatedly even as candidates in other states asked him to steer clear.
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