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'Can't believe my eyes': Florida 'hotbed of Trump support' erupts with Harris enthusiasm

www.rawstory.com 'Can't believe my eyes': Florida 'hotbed of Trump support' erupts with Harris enthusiasm

A Florida area known for being a "hotbed of Trump support" is reportedly seeing a bump in enthusiasm for Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday. As Trump and Harris gear up to face one another in November's election, each candidate has made an effort to make inroads on the territories typicall.....

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Far right Florida isn't as red as people think. DeSantis barely won. He had to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of black voters to win by a sliver. Then he rigged everything to make sure he'd get reelected the second time.
- Ronda won 57% to 42%. It was one of the biggest margins in the race in a long time. Florida keeps going further right. Because they've got an average of like 800 Boomer retirees moving in daily.
  https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/08/florida-governor-2022-ron-desantis-charlie-crist-00065788
  
  Boomers are dying off. Gen Z is aging into voting age. Don't take anything about that state for granted.
  
  I think people really under estimate how much voter suppression goes on and how effective it is.
  
  Sure but Florida is different. Nearly every other state is seeing some exodus of Boomers who have the wealth to retire. Many of them head to Florida.
  Florida has always had a mix of that going on. But Boomers started retiring at high rates about 10 years ago. The pace of influx of these people to Florida has dramatically aged the state. Forecast is 1/3rd of the state will be 60 or older in a couple years. That age group was under 1/4th before this latest mass migration started.

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