Current Events > Decision to cancel the FL Dem Primary backfires; GOP flips local elections.

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Background: The Dem primary in Florida was cancelled, making Biden the de-facto winner. As a result of this combined with local races being scheduled on the day the Dem primary would have been, voters that would've turned out did not, resulting in no downballot push for Dem-endorsed candidates in local elections.

I don't like to source twitter (which has a few examples) but here's a taste of how well the FL Dem's party strategy worked out from Axios;

https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2024/03/20/clearwater-election-bruce-rector-mayor-republicans

Worth noting that one of the big reasons FL went red in '22 by such large margins was the DNC giving up on them entirely and funneling money elsewhere since Dems came up short in several consecutive cycles. This is less an affect of the state's voters and more than Florida Dems have continually made comical mistakes, up to and including incumbent senator Bill Nelson having virtually no Hispanic outreach in his (narrowly lost) 2018 race. This decision seems to further justify completely cutting the cord on the state since they continue to be woefully incompetent.

No but Biden said he want to funnel money into Florida

Democrats love snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Enjoy your "party unity" ya dumbfucks.

Florida becomes more of a hell hole? Lmao who cares at this point. Fuck that sinkhole.

Florida has a Senate race this year. Was there not a state-wide primary for that? Did they just remove the president question and that lowered turnout?

I read that do this for every Democrat presidential incumbent election, so this isn't the first time. Is this the first time where it depressed turn out this much though?

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Please leave the state as soon as you can.

FL is red from now on. Dont waste the money.

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

FL is red from now on. Dont waste the money.

This.

Like Florida is legit no different than Alabama at this point. Its Joever there.

Florida is an alt-right shithole, and will be for a while.

One election cycle wasn't going to change that.

mybbqrules posted...

Florida is an alt-right shithole, and will be for a while.

One election cycle wasn't going to change that.

A lot of this is specifically because the FL Dems are remarkably bad at allocating money. I think we'd be seeing Rs in high offices regardless since it was such a swingy state, but Dems took the hispanic vote as granted and basically gave the state up in the process. By now, I'd have to agree there's no point in pulling it back, at least not until the current dem leadership in the state is completely cleaned out.

Can't the DNC like send some organizational experts down to Florida and clean fucking house of all the incompetents? If this was a private business nobody there would still have a job

Doe posted...

Can't the DNC like send some organizational experts down to Florida and clean fucking house of all the incompetents? If this was a private business nobody there would still have a job

Yeah, its kind of amazing how incompetent the Florida Democratic Party is.

While it's bad because any Republican winning is bad, it looks like the Dems lost the mayor of Clearwater and 2 City council seats. This isn't that big of a deal.

Still though I agree with this:

Doe posted...

Can't the DNC like send some organizational experts down to Florida and clean fucking house of all the incompetents? If this was a private business nobody there would still have a job