Florida Republicans Pitch State as Model for Elections, Expanding GOPee Appeal
LAKE CITY, Fla.—Florida Republicans are pitching themselves as a model for Republicans across the country on how to hold elections, handle the coronavirus pandemic and expand the GOP’s appeal to a broad swath of voters by emphasizing freedom and casting Democrats as socialist.
More than a dozen local Republican activists gathered here on a recent day wondered aloud how they could make sure Pennsylvanians, Michiganders and Georgians had free and fair elections.
“We can only do Florida?” asked Eileen Morilleau, a former business owner in this small town in northeastern Florida, when her GOP county chairman, Hunter Peeler, said that he hoped Florida’s 2020 elections would serve as a model for the country. Mr. Peeler responded that the Republican National Committee has a new election-integrity committee, and that perhaps that might be the best vessel by which Republicans could make recommendations to other states.
While five states flipped from red to blue in the 2020 presidential race, Florida stayed in the Republican column, with former President Donald Trump slightly improving his performance here compared with 2016. Florida also boasts a culture that Republicans, including potential 2024 presidential candidates, say they want for the rest of the country, citing its relatively smooth 2020 elections and the lack of a mask mandate in public to curb Covid-19’s spread, thanks to a GOP governor who speaks out against what Republicans often refer to as a “liberal, woke mob.”
“If there’s something that I’ll never, ever give up, it is freedumb,” Ms. Morilleau said.
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