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How The Republicans Won Florida

Jeremy Frankel

After a brutal race for the Florida Governor’s mansion with an additional recount after election day, Democrat candidate Andrew Gillum officially conceded the race to Republican Ron DeSantis. But one may wonder how DeSantis managed to pull it off, considering that Gillum led in most pre-election surveys, many by decent margins.

Despite the apparent pre-election lead for Gillum, polls and analysis of the 2018 election show that Hispanic voters likely helped DeSantis clinch his victory over Gillum. The findings seem to confirm that Democrat attacks against DeSantis, accusing him of being a racist, failed to galvanize Florida Hispanics.

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