Florida is the state in question.

Maybe you've heard of the tale. This is a crazy election, one of the most closely contested in American history, with Florida bushling to a 1/30th of one percent advantage. Unusual and wooly circumstances Florida gained not just a reputation as the classic swing state but also as a Bellwether state that would foretell how the election as a whole would go over the following few elections after George W. Bush's 537-vote victory.
choosing Republicans, Democrats, Republicans, and then Republicans once more Republican Governor Ron DeSantis was re-elected in Florida in a landslide, making it the biggest victory for a republican governor in this state in modern times. Republicans also won two-thirds super majorities in both houses of the state legislature, and Florida Republicans have been active since.excluding transgender girls from female restrooms

What was once a swing state is now strongly conservative and has grown even redder since the previous election. Sports so-called don't speak gay law halt woke act forbids race-related concepts bill that would restrict abortions after six weeks of pregnancy

Florida, a firmly Republican state, has announced its election. Florida
I adore this state, but the idea of Florida as a swing state feels like a distant memory these days, so what changed [Music] foreign we're going to look at three explanations for why Florida turned red, but first we should look at what turned red actually means in this case because even though Florida has swung in presidential elections for the past 20 years, every Governor and attorney general it has elected have been republicans. This chart illustrates how Florida has changed over time.

We're interested in this big jump where Florida goes from voting about three or four percentage points more Republican than the country to eight percentage points more Republican in the vicinity of ab. If you add how the entire country voted onto this chart and compare that with Florida, you can see that Florida voted more Republican than the country in general in every election.
of that time Between the start of the pandemic and the 2022 midterm elections, 4 million registered voters in the United States moved to a new state. Of those, one in every seven moved to Florida. If we look at which political party those new Florida voters are now registered to, we see a lot more Republicans than Democrats. You can really see that if we compare it to the other states that also got a lot of new residents during the pandemic.
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That is our first explanation for the large number of Republicans moving to Florida during the pandemic, and it is undoubtedly one that conservatives have highlighted. Lockdowns have caused some people to move to Florida who simply had enough with artist policies because they were not nearly as restrictive as they were in New York and California, people remember that, but this story actually only gets worse from there.
This is Miami-Dade County, the largest county in Florida and one of the most left-leaning. In 2016, it voted for Hillary Clinton by about 30 percentage points. In 2018, the Democratic candidate for governor increased by about 20 points. However, in 2020, Joe Biden only won the county by about two percentage points. In 2022, about 8 million people voted in Florida. Those new voters weren't enough to really swing an election, so we need to keep looking.

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This is a significant shift, but if we look at who lives in Miami-Dade, there's a clue. Historically, Latino voters have tended to support Democrats, and they used to do so in Florida.