Ron DeSantis Wins Florida Governor's Race

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Ron DeSantis was leading his Democratic challenger by about 19 percentage points as of Wednesday morning. Florida actually moved to the right between 2016 and 2020; that move has continued in 2022. Even Jim Defeiti of CBS 4 here, the local powerhouse political reporter says this is no longer a swing state. We actually already saw that in 2020 when across the country, Joe Biden did better than Hillary Clinton had in 2016 but not in Florida.

The midterms weren’t a clear victory for Republicans, and it’s still too early to know who’ll control Congress. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh with help from Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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