Democratic Stronghold Flips Republican as Florida Voters Paint Biden Territory Red
Back in the day, Florida was a swing state. Remember “hanging chads”? The only reason those ballots were so important was that the decisive state in the 2000 election, the Sunshine State, was decided by well under a thousand votes.
As much as the Democrats might have been sore about that at the time, it turns out those were halcyon days for the party in the third-most populous state in the nation. Donald Trump has carried the last two presidential elections there, the last Democratic senator to represent Florida lost re-election there in 2018, and the state’s House seats lean heavily red. The same is true for the governorship and state legislatures.
State Democratic Party chairwoman Nikki Fried — who was the only statewide-elected Democrat when she won the commissioner of agriculture seat back in 2018 — aimed to change that with a “Take Back Local” campaign.
