Florida is the future of the GOP, and Miami is its capital

By 8 p.m. japanese time, inside seconds of Florida’s polls closing statewide, NBC and Fox Information each known as the reelection of Gov. Ron DeSantis. Throughout an election evening that the media promised should spill into an election week, DeSantis secured sweeping victories, whereas half of the remainder of the nation was nonetheless caught in line ready to vote.

Simply how nicely did DeSantis develop upon his mandate to manipulate? Contemplate the beating coronary heart of the state, and perhaps the epicenter of the GOP. In 2018, he misplaced the nation’s most populous majority-Hispanic county by greater than 20 factors to former Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum. With 80% of the 2022 vote counted, DeSantis is up almost 20 factors over Charlie Crist, the previous governor of your complete state. (For reference, when the newly woke Crist initially ran because the Republican gubernatorial nominee, he misplaced by 8 factors.)

The entire slate of Republican candidates challenged within the Miami metropolitan space outperformed expectations. Rubio secured his reelection for Senate by 8 p.m. over Val Demings, whom Democrats thought-about a contender for Joe Biden’s working mate simply two years in the past. Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar swept a double-digit lead. The one candidate not on the poll, Mayor Francis Suarez, spent the lead-up to the election campaigning for different Republicans, together with in different states.

One thing is altering in Miami, and no, it is not simply the Cubans. A single county flipping has taken the nation’s most important swing state off the desk for Democrats’ taking. It was solely two years in the past that Miami-Dade gave Joe Biden a 7-point lead, and now, the county has gifted the GOP a blood-red metropolis, from the mayor to the governor singularly slated to take the Republican presidential nomination after which the White Home in 2024.

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