Dem turnout in Florida looks like shit. It's really low. Seems to be nowhere near 2018

[In It to Win It]

I'm just now getting back home and tuning in.

Lost for my home state of Florida, but not unexpected.

[VMA131Marine]

1. Voter suppression at work.

[Amishman]

3. Its a lot more than that

any voter suppression capable of squashing us this hard would draw the ire of the DoJ.

No, there is a lot more to this. It will require a lot of deep and *honest* introspection by our party.

[LenaBaby61]

9. REALLY THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Claustrum]

2. Republicans flat out won (looks like) Miami-Dame where Hillary won it by 30 points back in 2016.

I hope someone in our party would do some research and figure out how to fix the problem there.

[BlueIdaho]

5. Let's remember DeSatin

Redistricted the entire state to deliver the votes the GQP needs to win the House. It is not the same state or district as when Hillary won.

[Claustrum]

8. Still though, swinging 30+ points means there is something to look into.

There are many reasons, gerrymandering is one of them, but I think it would serve us well if we can look into it some more and try to win some of those people back.

[In It to Win It]

13. I agree

86% reporting and Crist hasn't cracked 3 million votes. That, to me, is shockingly low.

DeSantis is getting the numbers I expected him to get but Crist???

[AkFemDem]

18. Desantis approval ratings, even among I and D voters is strong

I’m honestly not shocked at all by the numbers in FL tonight.

[In It to Win It]

21. Yes, but DeSantis is not getting more votes than expected

He's getting the amount of expected votes (expected from me, at least).

Democratic voters didn't show up. Overall turnout is down from 4 years ago.

[In It to Win It]

7. I'm comparing the numbers from 2018

and the turn out from Dems seems to be piss poor. The 3 big Dem South Florida counties, DeSantis is winning 2 of the 3. These turnout numbers are pitiful.

One of the problems, from what I've seen, is that more conservatives voters are moving to Florida. That seems to have been the trend for the last decade. I'm not sure how we can attract more Dem voters to Florida.

[BlueIdaho]

11. Well for starters...

The national Democratic Party reduced the money they sent to Florida - from over a million dollars to about $700,000. That hurts.

[W_HAMILTON]

20. From what time I spent GOTV there in 2020...

...that was a good call by the DNC.

Money cannot fix the problem there. It would have just been wasted funds.

[MOMFUDSKI]

17. It is a combo of

redistricting, more rethugs moving here, and Miami cubans falling for the socialist tag. Simple. Don't know yet if the Democrats' turnout was low but apathy could be a possibility. I am sick. I live here. Rethugs are ANGRY while we Democrats are SCARED. And we Democrats are up against a long-term plan by the rethugs nationwide.

[In It to Win It]

19. I'm thinking it has to be more than that

Based on these numbers, Democratic voters are not showing up.

For Crist, redistricting is not a factor. Taking into account Miami Cubans, more Republicans moving here and everything... Crist should be getting much higher numbers than this. DeSantis is getting the amount of votes I expected.

The Orlando area is barely leaning toward Crist. Tampa and West Palm Beach areas are leaning DeSantis. Crist is winning in Broward but is underperforming. DeSantis is getting the amount of votes I expected out of Broward, but Crist isn't. Crist should be running up more numbers in Broward.

Dem turnout overall is SUPER low across the board.

[superpatriotman]

6. I called it

Florida has been gerrymandered and propaganded red.

[LenaBaby61]

10. REALLY THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Sailingdiver]

16. What he said

[tinymontgomery]

12. Pull a trump and demand a recount and send in the lawyers.

[roamer65]

14. Red is getting redder, blue is getting bluer.

The polarization will keep getting worse.

[In It to Win It]

15. ...and blue isn't turning out. I'm so curious as to why people aren't turning out.

There are strong Democratic parts of the state where Crist should be running up the numbers and he did not do that. The vote counts aren't as large in the Democratic strongholds as they had been before making DeSantis more competitive in those areas.