Florida Governor Ron DeSantis enjoyed a historic victory in the Sunshine State Tuesday night, crushing his Democratic challenger Charlie Crist by 20 points with more than 99% of the vote counted.
Thank you, Florida.
Freedom is here to stay. pic.twitter.com/UYZy2C1kHO
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) November 9, 2022
“The change was most notably felt in historically blue Miami-Dade County, which flipped DeSantis’ way – the first time in 20 years the county went for a Republican governor. As of early Wednesday morning, state data had DeSantis winning 55.3% of the votes in Miami-Dade to 44% for Democrat Charlie Crist. Compare that to 2018, when DeSantis got trounced in that county by Democrat Andrew Gillum by a margin of more than 20 points. Rubio also carried the county over Democrat Rep. Val Demings after losing it by more than 11 points in 2016,” reports Fox News.
DeSantis: "We have embraced freedom. We have maintained law and order. We have protected the rights of parents. We have respected our taxpayers, and we reject woke ideology…We will never ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die!"pic.twitter.com/O59Og21fpd
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 9, 2022
“Thanks to the overwhelming support of the people of Florida, we not only won election, we have re-written the political map,” said DeSantis at his Election HQ. “Thank you for honoring us with a win for the ages.”
Watch the Governor’s comments above.