{"id":1720522,"date":"2022-11-01T17:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720522"},"modified":"2022-11-01T17:18:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:18:51","slug":"wow-florida-gop-registers-9-new-voters-for-every-new-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wow-florida-gop-registers-9-new-voters-for-every-new-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow: Florida GOP Registers 9 New Voters For Every New Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwow-florida-gop-registers-9-new-voters-for-every-new-democrat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720522&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>All the latest polls show that late-breakers in the 2022 midterm elections are moving hard to the Republican side, but what\u2019s going on in Florida is insane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida has 5.28 million registered Republicans for the Nov. 8 election \u2014 an increase of more than 86,376 from the number of Republicans registered to vote in the August primary,\u201d the Sun Sentinel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/florida-republicans-register-9-new-voters-for-every-1-new-democrat-in-months-leading-to-midterms\/ar-AA13vOUj\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state has 4.97 million Democrats \u2014 just 9,380 more than the number who were registered to vote in August.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s more than nine Floridians registered for every Democrat registered.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive growth of the GOP in Florida has prompted some to ponder whether the state is still purple \u2014 able to vote red or blue, depending on the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump won Florida in 2016 and 2020, and Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012. But with the new influx of Republican voters, that may start to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt might be time to consider Florida, if not a red state, than a red-leaning state. If you\u2019re just being factual, until the Democrats start winning races statewide with some degree of regularity, it\u2019s hard to call it a battleground state,\u201d Kevin Wagner, a Florida Atlantic University political scientist, told the Sun Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p>The flood to the GOP goes back a decade. There are now 5.28 million registered Republicans in the state, up 24.3% from 2012. On the other hand, there are 4.97 million registered Democrats, which is just 3.96% higher than ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime swing has prompted President Joe Biden to travel to Fort Lauderdale this week in a last-ditch effort to save Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist. But the move seems pointless; the Real Clear Politics (RCP) average of all polls puts Crist behind by 12.3 points.<\/p>\n<p>Biden will also try to save another Democrat, Val Demings, but she trails Sen. Marco Rubio in the RCP average by 8 points.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more bad news nationally for Democrats that is likely playing out in Florida, too. Blacks and Hispanics are moving hard to the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>During the last midterm elections in 2018, Democrats crushed Republicans among black voters, winning 92% of the black vote to just 6% for the GOP. That same year, Democrats enjoyed a lopsided majority among Hispanic voters, 72% to 25%, according to exit polling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/methods\/2020\/09\/08\/democrats-made-gains-from-multiple-sources-in-2018-midterm-victories\/\">data<\/a> studied by Pew Research.<\/p>\n<p>But amid skyrocketing gas and food prices and soaring crime rates across the country, the two voting blocs are having a change of heart from their long \u2014 and expected \u2014 support of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue of inflation \u2013 and the feeling that the White House hasn\u2019t done enough to address it \u2013 is helping Republicans score significant inroads among Hispanic and Black voters, both demographic groups that Democrats have long relied on for support,\u201d USA Today reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, 40% of Hispanics and 21% of Blacks are backing the Republican candidate,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/10\/27\/republicans-resurgent-economy-midterms\/10596369002\/\">according<\/a> to a USA Today\/Suffolk University poll.<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers are huge \u2014 black support is up 15 points from 6% in the last midterms to 21%, and Hispanic support jumped the same 15 points to 40%.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden movement among the two voting blocs comes as blacks and Hispanics have grown increasingly frustrated with soaring crime in U.S. cities. After decades of failure by Democrats \u2014 who have long run the biggest American cities \u2014 perhaps it\u2019s time to give the other guys a try.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the latest polls show that late-breakers in the 2022 midterm elections are moving hard to the Republican side, but what\u2019s going on in Florida is insane. \u201cFlorida has 5.28 million registered Republicans for the Nov. 8 election \u2014 an increase of more than 86,376 from the number of Republicans registered to vote in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1720525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}