What's the status of Puerto Rican voters in Florida?

[Alhena]

I remember after Trump screwed Puerto Rico after the hurricane and many of them moved to Florida, there were predictions about how it would greatly help the Dems in 2020. Yet I never hear anything about them- did this not pan out?

[KWR65]

1. If they registered they can vote.

[obamanut2012]

2. If they are Florida residents, they can vote

They usually tend to vote blue.

[Statistical]

3. Trump did give some very belated aid (bribe) to PR to try and gets some of those votes.

I haven't seen any polling of Puerto Ricans in Florida specifically. Hispanics in Florida tend to be more conservative than nationally although even in Florida they are going for Biden just at a smaller margin.

[Hortensis]

4. As citizens, once they become resident on the mainland they're eligible to vote.

I just pulled this:

A national survey of Puerto Ricans who live in the U.S. reported that 90 percent are registered to vote.

The survey, published by the Center for American Progress Action Fund last week, said 51 percent identified as Democrats, 17 percent as Republicans, and 25 percent as independents. The rest identified with a third p“We are being recognized as an important voting force,” said Arnaldo Oliveras, a Puerto Rico native and Orlando businessman. “There’s potential here for changing the outcome, I think, if we vote.”

Central Florida’s Puerto Rican voters indeed could determine the next president.

As perhaps the ultimate swing state, Florida has voted for the winner in the past six presidential elections, University of Central Florida political science professor Aubrey Jewett pointed out to Spectrum News this week.

Jewett called the I-4 corridor the swing region of the swing state.

The numbers suggest that Puerto Rican residents could provide the swing vote.

According to 2018 data from UCF’s Puerto Rico Research Hub, the counties of Orange, Osceola, Seminole, and Volusia boasted a combined Puerto Rican population of 413,835 — some 35 percent of Florida’s Puerto Rican residents. Another 70,621 lived in Polk County.

It’s unclear whether those numbers account for many residents who returned to Puerto Rico after moving here in the wake of Hurricane Maria, which devasted the island three years ago.

But experts point out that Central Florida held a large Puerto Rican population long before the hurricane, and that population remains among the largest in the country.

In Florida, it doesn’t take much to swing a presidential election. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by about 120,000 votes. In the contested race of 2000, George W. Bush beat Al Gore by 537 votes and won the presidency.

“Turnout, I think that’s going to be a huge issue,” ...

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2020/09/30/central-florida-s-puerto-ricans-could-cast-swing-state-s-swing-votes

Yup to that last.