An irked MSNBC host Joy Reid known as Florida, a swing state in presidential elections for many years, a “far-far-far-right” state on Tuesday as returns confirmed Republicans Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio cruising to victory.
As she gushed over Democratic Rep.-elect Maxwell Frost as a progressive star within the making in Florida – Frost will take the seat vacated by Val Demings after her failed Senate bid in opposition to Rubio – Reid appeared to fume that Florida was overtaken by extremists.
“If there ever is a time where Florida will matriculate back to being sort of a normal political state, and not just a far, far far right state, which I think it is now, that generation will take them there,” she mentioned throughout MSNBC’s election protection.
While discussing how each Gov. DeSantis and Sen. Rubio outperformed President Donald Trump within the 2020 presidential election, host Rachel Maddow famous that Miami-Dade and Florida as an entire is beginning to look increasingly more crimson.
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“Florida is a red state,” Reid replied to her colleague. “I think I have said this before. The challenge is, Miami-Dade has been trending Republican for a really long time. It’s been slowly slipping toward the Republican Party. And it is a 70-plus percent Hispanic county. Of the people who are Hispanic in that county, the vast majority are Cuban Americans. That’s a very conservative population. That county remained Democratic in the ’08 and 2012 elections because of one thing, Barack Obama. Barack Obama actually managed to eat into the margins.”
Maddow then tried to carry up Hillary Clinton’s huge win within the county in 2016, however Reid talked over her.
“It’s been moving in that direction. And with Obama not on the ballot, you know, I have been talking with people who have been looking at African American turnout. The precincts are barren. Turnout among African Americans is dismal in Florida,” Reid added.
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid bashed anybody who voted Republican as selecting “literal fascism” in February.
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Reid began her political media profession as a Florida blogger, however she hasn’t at all times proven sturdy information of the state. She as soon as thought the info website FiveThirtyEight was named after George W. Bush’s margin of victory in 2000 in opposition to Al Gore in Florida; reasonably, the positioning identify refers back to the 538 votes up for grabs within the Electoral College.
In 2020, President Biden received Miami-Dade County over Trump by 7 factors, whereas dropping the state to Trump general. Four years earlier Trump misplaced the county to Clinton by 30 factors and barely received the state. Rubio additionally misplaced the county by nearly 10 factors in 2016.
Miami-Dade County has a inhabitants of round 2.3 million folks, and is 70% Hispanic, with a big chunk of that inhabitants Cuban Americans.
In 2002, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush turned the final to-date Republican gubernatorial candidate to win the heavily-populated and numerous Miami-Dade County in South Florida.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appears to be like on earlier than the beginning of a recreation between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Florida Gators at TIAA Bank Field on October 29, 2022 in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Democrats have expressed concern about Cuban Americans supporting the GOP previously, and a gaggle linked to far-left billionaire George Soros is making an attempt to buy the conservative Miami-based, Spanish-language Radio Mambi. The discuss radio station has lengthy appealed to anti-communism Cuban Americans, however a lot of Radio Mambi’s largest stars imagine the deliberate takeover is an try by the left to manage the stream of Spanish-language information obtainable to voters.
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The deal, which is pending FCC approval, is thought of an indication that high-powered Democrats are involved about future elections.
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.