While Democrats headed into the midterms facing a brutal political environment and the threat of losing their House and Senate majorities, the party largely outperformed expectations. The election results offered a stunning split screen to other battleground states. But 19? I think everybody was surprised by that.” “I was expecting maybe a 6-or-7-point win for DeSantis. “I knew the margins were going to be big,” one Florida Democratic strategist said. DeSantis barely eked out a win in 2018 when he beat Democrat Andrew Gillum by less than half a percentage point. By comparison, Rubio won his last election by fewer than 8 points. Val Demings (D), by more than 16 percentage points. Charlie Crist, by a staggering 19-point margin, while Rubio vanquished his opponent, Rep.
Ultimately, DeSantis defeated his Democratic rival, former Rep. 30, 2022, there were roughly 300,000 more registered Republican voters than Democratic voters.ĭeSantis also won another Democratic-leaning county, Palm Beach County, while Rubio came within 2,100 votes of scoring a victory there. In 2008, when former President Obama carried Florida for the first time, there were about 700,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. Democrats have been locked out of the governor’s mansion since former President Clinton was in the White House, and the party’s once-yawning voter registration had been eroding for years. We need a 10-to-15-year plan.”įlorida’s transformation into a red state has been in the making for years. “But that involves an element of bringing in new faces and proving that we can be competitive - that at least we’re building sustainable infrastructure. “We need to get our s- together,” one Florida Democratic operative said.
The question on many Democrats’ minds now isn’t whether they can mount a comeback in the next few years, but whether they can even remain a viable political force.
The election results have only intensified the infighting and soul-searching that have long roiled the state Democratic Party. For the first time since Reconstruction, no Democrat will hold statewide office in Florida. Marco Rubio (R) win landslide victories and Republicans clinch supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature. The scale of the Democratic wipeout in Florida is hard to understate. Democrats are facing an existential crisis in Florida after a red wave engulfed the nation’s once-premier battleground state.
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