‘No safe seat’: could Democrats make Florida a swing state again?

Описание: Democrats in Florida believe that strong performances in two congressional races this month have erected signposts towards restoring its status as a crucial swing state.

It might appear a lofty conviction given no Democratic candidate has won a statewide election since 2018, and any remaining notion of Florida being purple was dispelled by Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris by more than 13 percentage points in November.

Yet hope has emerged alongside some remarkable statistics from the 1 April special elections in traditionally strong Republican districts, both of which the Democratic candidates still lost, but by significantly narrower margins than five months ago.

In the House seat vacated by Matt Gaetz, Trump’s failed pick for attorney general, Democratic candidate Gay Valimont doubled her tally of votes from November. She halved the Republican majority, and flipped Escambia county blue “for the first time in living memory”, in the words of state Democratic party chair Nikki Fried.
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