Florida has made a right turn since 2020. These four factors explain the change

CNN ^ | Tue November 1, 2022 | By Steve Contorno

[MinorityRepublican]

In the final week before Election Day, the two most recent US presidents will hold rallies in Florida, where a seismic political shift currently underway may alter the national political map in the years to come.

President Joe Biden lands Tuesday in South Florida to campaign for Democrats. Donald Trump will host his own event for Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday in Miami.

The circumstances of their arrivals have brought their own intrigue. With Democrats reticent to welcome Biden and his underwater approval rating elsewhere, the president will spend one of the final days before the election in a state that has been an afterthought for his party for much of the midterm cycle. Meanwhile, Republicans speculate Trump is holding court in the Sunshine State two days before the election in part to needle Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 rival who was not invited to the weekend campaign stop.

Most election years, a visit by a high-profile politician to the Sunshine State would be the norm, if not expected. Trump and Biden each had multiple stops in Florida two years ago – including dueling rallies days before the election in 2020 separated by a few hours and just 10 miles of Tampa roads. And four years ago, races for governor and US Senate in Florida were decided in a recount.

But now, Republicans and Democrats are on opposite trajectories. Republicans believe they are headed for their most successful election night in a generation, buoyed by DeSantis’ record-breaking fundraising and a surge of enthusiasm. Democrats, trailing in the polls and lagging in excitement, are hoping for an unexpected change of political winds or they could be left without a single statewide elected official in Florida for the first time since at least Reconstruction.

[FLT-bird]

I am SO happy to see my native Florida pull back from the brink. The flood of out of state money threatened to flip the state for a while, but those efforts kept failing narrowly. Had the Democrats managed to turn Florida blue, we would have been utterly screwed. There is simply no way to win national elections with California, New York and Florida all on one side. As it is, Florida and Texas nearly counterbalance California and New York.....by the way, Florida should have gained 2 new seats rather than 1, and New York should have lost another had the last census been honest.

[FLT-bird]

1) A lot of the newcomers to Florida now are Leftugees. We used to just get Leftist Yankees who came to Broward county from New Yaaaak/Joissey for their last few years before they died. 2) The younger generation of Cubans briefly flirted with voting Democrat but the hard hard left turn of the Democrats, the censorship, the weaponizing the law enforcement agencies etc showed them that everything the older generation said about how Leftists impose dictatorship was true. They swung back hard to the right. 3) a lot of Venezuelans have now been in the US long enough to become citizens. They HATE the commies with a purple passion. They're 100% Republican. 4) the transgender ideology and pushing sex in schools runs directly against the culture of pretty much all of the various Hispanic groups - who celebrate traditional families, masculinity, religion, etc. The whole idea of them accepting that "Manuel" could decide to become "Isabella"......uhhhh HELL NO. For these reasons, Republican registrations are massively outpacing Democrat registrations in Florida.

[MinorityRepublican]

You forgot about the Democrats calling Hispanics “Latinx”.