Florida is…screwed.

In the floridas gubernatorial race, you had a former Republican 2x governor in charlie crist running as a democrat against Desantis. What an awful thing. Republicans hated him because he was a "turncoat" (and Republican messaging was especially harsh), and dems hated him because he wasn't an effective governor and never much represented us.

desantis has his cult…so they turned out and voted for him and rubio. And they picked up votes for each other among everyone else. And here we are.

People say Florida is "getting" red. I say it's pretty much the same as it's always been. The first time governor races are typically closely contested. But the incumbents always win. And we've had a Republican in the office for 28, now going on 32, years.

So this is not new or news. Someone needs to organize in Florida and provide a candidate more people can believe in and then help them reach actual voters.

As a complete aside, I know a lot of Venezuelans. While they can't all vote (not being citizens) you hear the talk about how the dems are socialists, like they see back home. And so they supported trump because he talked tough about Venezuela, even though he was much more like the guy back home than Biden.

And then Biden turned around and gave them tps status. But they still think he's the devil.

Desantis dupes mostly Venezuelan migrants with his (illegal and immoral) migrant flights … and yet they still supported him. And got people who hate what's happening in Venezuela on their side.

Those are the kinds of issues this state has to overcome. But there are many of them. Cuban Americans will never vote dem, because they were brought up hating on kennedy. Central Americans can't see that reps want to keep them down. And so on.

No one has managed to crack that nut. And as a result, we're screwed.

BTW, in Florida the incumbent governor has to vacate the office if s/he wants to run for higher office. The reps love desantis and want him to run for prez, so they want to change the law this term to allow him to remain gov while he runs.

The reason they have the law in the first place is because you can't serve two masters, and be an effective absentee gov. Which he kind of already is. 🤷🏼‍♂️