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Axios Re:Cap

A good night for Trump in Florida

Axios Re:Cap

Axios

Daily News, News

4.5705 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This is Axios Special Election 2020 coverage. President Trump did better in Florida than many expected. To understand why, we spoke to Peter Schorsch, the St. Petersburg-based reporter behind FloridaPolitics.com, who shared how demographic shifts, fears of socialism, and reactions to Black Lives Matter protests motivated voter turnout in the Sunshine State.

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0:00.0

It's Axios Election 2020 special coverage. I'm Naila Boodoo. And here's what we're asking right now.

0:05.2

What is happening in Florida?

0:08.1

With me from St. Petersburg is Florida Politics.com Peter Schorch.

0:13.2

So Peter, we know Florida has 29 electoral college votes. This is a crucial battleground state.

0:18.8

What are we seeing right now?

0:20.8

Donald Trump has overperformed

0:23.0

the polling that came into election day. Most of the polling had Biden plus one plus two.

0:30.8

Some even had it bigger than that. Donald Trump on the strength of not losing Miami-Dade

0:36.7

as much as the registration might suggest, and then running

0:40.3

up the score in mid-sized counties throughout Florida, Sarasota, Sumter, and then holding his own

0:48.7

in the population centers like Pinellas County, he's putting together a two or three point win as we speak now,

0:54.9

and he still has the panhandle, which is a conservative stronghold, a lot of military voters.

0:59.4

He should get to probably plus three by the time the night has ended.

1:04.1

Peter, what about the senior vote? We heard so much about this before.

1:08.0

It felt like the seniors who were NPAs had taken their cues from the president,

1:13.3

and that's why they turned out today. And he did not, you know, Trump had won the MPAs four years

1:19.6

ago against Hillary Clinton on his way to a one point win. And it feels like he has got some sort

1:26.1

of residency. I think people should realize that the

1:29.3

Latino population is heavily mixed in with the NPA. There's a lot of overlap. Sorry, NPA.

1:35.9

No party affiliation. So the other, we put everything into that third category there. And so

1:42.3

NPA could be anything. And people just assume that it's like

1:46.1

libertarians or something like that. And it's not. It's basically a whole mix of people. And

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