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Under the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida Republicans enjoyed historic wins Tuesday night, both at the top of the ticket and down the ballot. Here are some of the numbers showing just how strong their performance was:
1,474,618 — That’s the difference between DeSantis’s 2018 and 2022 margins of victory. DeSantis beat Democrat Charlie Crist by a whopping 1.5 million votes Tuesday, just four years after his 30,000-vote victory over Democrat Andrew Gillum.
62 — That’s how many counties DeSantis carried out of 67. He lost nearly triple that number of counties—13—in 2018.
2002 — That’s the year Republicans last won a majority of voters in historically blue Miami-Dade County.
