• officermike@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    As a Florida Democrat who got pulled out of state during the primaries on a work trip, I hadn’t even really heard the names Angie Nixon or David Jolly until I opened the sample ballot for the general election last Friday. Florida Democratic party must not have put in much effort to campaign. I don’t recall seeing even a single sign on a street corner for those races.

    That said, despite DeSantis’ redistricting efforts, the needle didn’t budge for the house.

    Meanwhile Texas (who started the whole redistricting clusterfuck) lost a house seat and a whole lot more. I didn’t even realize Abbott was up for reelection this year until he had already lost.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
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    2 days ago

    Maybe if the DNC lifted a finger for Angie… But at least their excuses for Florida have run out.

  • BooBees@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Florida is the only state that didn’t get swept away really. They should still be very scared, but they managed to hold on for the most part, so republicans will likely and erroneously try to mimic their politics nationally to replace Trump’s personal version of maga. Look forward to a battle between Desantis brand maga and Tucker/Vance brand maga

    • varden@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      We tried so hard, but there’s straight up too many old retired republican voters. Old people from across the country retire here, we even have an entire “city” of nothing but old ass retired people. DeSantis made it so much worse too.

      His term is up though, and we almost got a democrat elected to replace him. I was surprised at just how close we came, given the past decade. But we elected another republican, so it’s not gonna be much better.

      It’s not just the old people either, there are a ton of huge rural areas with tump flags in every lawn on poles and fences, giant trucks plastered with stickers and flying flags. Lots of racist rednecks here.

      I’m so happy to see the rest of the country flipping blue after seeing how badly everything went here. We also just shredded our tax system to bits, so everything’s gonna suck even more now.