If the presidential race keeps us up late or even waiting for days, it won’t be because of Florida. The Sunshine State was at the center of the hotly contested 2000 presidential election that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Obama carried Florida twice.
Not this year. Some Democrats thought maybe they could make something out of the Florida Senate race. There were even a few whispers about Harris making a push there, but it never materialized.
For good reason: Trump and Scott won easily, by double digits. Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate to win Miami-Dade since 1988. This is Trump’s third straight election carrying Florida, but this time it wasn’t even close.
DeSantis gets part of the credit for consolidating Florida as a red state, following up his razor-thin 2018 election with a landslide reelection two years ago. It was one of the few places where the red wave actually happened during the midterm elections and it doesn’t seem to have crested yet.
