Inside the weirdest, wildest, tightest state in politics

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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While Florida Republicans used to dominate the absentee ballot game, this year there's been a stunning development: For the first time ever at this stage of a general election, Florida Democrats are outvoting Republicans. But lest they get too excited, campaign veterans warn that a wave of Republican votes is coming on Election Day. POLITICO's Marc Caputo takes Nerdcast host Scott Bland inside the must-win swing state in the final weeks of an unprecedented election year. Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a politics editor at POLITICO.Marc Caputo is a senior reporter covering Joe Biden and Florida for POLITICO.Adrienne Hurst is an associate producer for POLITICO audio. Jenny Ament is a senior producer for POLITICO audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	When the last people are.
0:47.0	Oh, Pee. key.
0:55.0	These margins are insane.
0:57.0	Here in Florida, the number of early votes reveals a potentially worrying statistic for President Donald Trump.
1:03.0	And these total numbers are just crazy.
1:05.1	We haven't seen this before.
1:06.5	The number of Democratic voters who've cast their ballots early
1:09.8	tops Republicans by more than 350,000.
1:13.0	So we are in a kind of a different world here.
1:16.0	Florida is, as it almost always is, right in the middle of the national story in elections.
1:22.0	You've got all the trends shaping American politics just happening
1:26.0	right next to each other and kind of by coincidence in ways that almost completely cancel
1:32.2	each other out.
1:32.8	And so the state is trapped in this permanent state of toss-up, coin flip,
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