<p>CNN anchor Jake Tapper was quick to spin the margin of victory for Florida&#8217;s former Chief Financial Officer Jim Patronis, who won the seat vacated by former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Gaetz, who was initially tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as Attorney General, withdrew his nomination for the post — but not before he resigned his seat in the House of Representatives. But when Patronis was projected to win the seat on Tuesday, CNN&#8217;s Tapper was quick to point out that his margin of victory would not come close to Gaetz&#8217;s 37-point margin in November of 2024.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">You know things are bad for the Democrats when they&#39;re celebrating double digit losses in Congressional races.</p>
<p>&quot;He is going to win, we&#39;re projecting a win for him [Patronis]. But Dana, it&#39;s not a 35 point win.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/xWhxjltMVU">pic.twitter.com/xWhxjltMVU</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThomasMHern/status/1907228175953780971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Patronis is a strong candidate,&#8221; Tapper said, before adding, &#8220;And he is — he&#8217;s going to win, we&#8217;re projecting a win for him — but Dana, it&#8217;s not a 35-point win that it should be in ruby red panhandle Florida.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re exactly right,&#8221; fellow anchor Dana Bash agreed. &#8220;And it is the whole question of the margins, Jake, that is what Democrats have been looking at all night.&#8221;</p>
<p>Critics pointed out that Tapper was trying to spin a double-digit loss as some kind of a win for Democrats.</p>
<p>&#8220;CNN is always funny to watch on election night when Republican are winning!&#8221; Brigitte Gabriel posted.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">CNN is always funny to watch on election night when Republican are winning!</p>
<p>&mdash; Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) <a href="https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1907229180602847323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Others pointed out that Patronis&#8217; race — and the other Florida race to fill the seat vacated by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz — were special elections held alongside municipal elections and, therefore, required a different calculus when looking at what the margins of victory might mean.</p>
<p>Special elections often see much lower turnout — and that can lead to slimmer margins of victory and even upsets in the final results.</p>
<p>In 2017, a very <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/special-house-elections-trump-era-opposing-party/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar scene</a> played out in Kansas after President Donald Trump nominated then-Congressman Mike Pompeo to serve as his CIA Director. Despite Pompeo winning his seat the previous November by a comfortable 31 points, his replacement Ron Estes was only able to eke out a six-point victory. In 2020, Estes won the same seat by 27 points. He won by 27 points again in 2022, and by 30 points in 2024.</p>

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