What do you think about the fact that Donald Trump is now one of your constituents?

I mean, I don't think all of that much about it, right?

He's one of 115,000 registered voters in District 87.

My opponent made him forefront in his campaign, and I focused more on the voters

in District 87, you know, what everybody needs, what all of us will do better with, with lower

property insurance, with expanded health care, and with strong public schools. I think we've

learned over the last several years that no one is coming to save us.

We have to save ourselves.

So I might have done some crazy calculus to decide that this was a flip opportunity.

But it was, and we did it.

My math works.

Hi again, everybody.

It is 5 o'clock now in New York.

I'm Alicia Menendez in for Nicole Wallace.

The real beauty of this thing we call democracy is messy and as noisy and as chaotic as it can be

is that, at least for now, the American people have the final say. Ultimately, they are the ones

steering this ship. So if and when Donald Trump's own neighbors, his home community, decided

they'd rather be represented by a Democrat, said as someone he endorsed, well, then that's that.

Last night, in a special election for a statehouse seat in

Florida, Democrat Emily Gregory defeated Republican John Maples in a district that includes

Mar-a-Lago. That is a flipped seat in 2024, a different Republican candidate, one big to the tune of

19 points. And yes, we can tick through all the usual

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