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  It's also not helpful that the trash is taking itself out of the blue states and going to Florida for the "freedom"
context: From the story,
  
  More than two months after enduring humbling midterm losses, Democrats in Florida are in a state of disorder, with no clear leader, infrastructure, or consensus for rebuilding, according to interviews with more than a dozen organizers, former lawmakers, donors and other leaders.
  These factors have compounded their worries about Democrats outside Florida all but writing off the nation’s third most populous state, which was once seen as a marquee battleground. Democrats have struggled there in recent elections, hitting a new low last fall when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won a second term by nearly 20 points and carried majority-Hispanic Miami-Dade County, which a GOP gubernatorial nominee hadn’t done in 20 years. Republicans also secured a supermajority in the state legislature. >
  
  It mirrors an experience we feel in Texas. 2nd most populous and it feels increasingly hopeless to be competitive here even though Republicans are more brazenly corrupt. >
  
  Huge, highly concentrated in-state money plus oodles of out-of-state money destroy the confidence of the opposition's small donors. >
  
  Don’t forget the Gerrymandering. You don’t get a nice right wing stew without some ‘technically legal’ district manipulation in the mix. >
  
  That’s what’s happening in Ohio. It was once a “ swing” state. But Republicans have gerrymandered the hell out of the voting districts. >
  
  How would gerrymandering affect whether a state is a swing state? >
  
  gerrymander districts have the most extreme candidates, who can act without consequence. >
  
  Swing states refers to the presidential election. Gerrymandering has nothing to do with it. >
  
  Here’s an idea:
  1. Don’t nominate a washed out has-been republican as your party’s representative for the governor’s race. 
  2. Actually spend money on ads and mailers. >
  
  That's not the issue.  The issue is that one side is playing fair, and one is saturating the media, especially Spanish media, with blatant fucking lies.  And the dem's whole thing is that they are better than that.  But in a game with no rules, or at least one with rules not being enforced, the people with no morals will win. >
  
  Nope. I didn’t see a single ad on tv after the primaries in support of a democrat. And why the hell was a republican on the democrat ticket? You’re just completely wrong. >
  
  It will take me years to get over the fact that someone in the state leadership thought it was a good idea to throw support behind Crist for governor. >
  
  They really didn't like Nikki Fried - except that she was the only Democrat to win in 2018 (helped, of course, by a number of factors, but still) and could have really taught the party something. She still probably would have lost against DeSantis, but probably not as badly - and the Democrats might not have gotten murdered down ballot like they did.
  Instead, Crist lost by over 20 points. The US Senate race was a similar trouncing. Republicans have supermajorities in both the State House and State Senate. The Congressional map was a partisan disaster at the start but every potential tossup race was win by Republicans.
  The Florida Democratic Party appears to have died after the 2000 Presidential election and 2022 is a culmination of the last 20 years of continual failure. Crist was a spectacular failure on the party's part, even if you expected a DeSantis win from the start. >
  
  Still think Nikki Fried could have beat one of Rubio or DeSantis with adequate funding >
  
  Fried was polling equal to or worse than Crist against DeSantis. It didn't really matter who the Democrats ran, they were going to lose. The only difference is that Fried might have lost by a smaller margin.
  She couldn't beat Crist (and lost by nearly 30 points) - she wasn't going to beat DeSantis. >
  
  The problem is that many of the Dems that made Florida purple and turned the state to Obama are leaving. The message of telling Florida Dems to stay and live with the abusive ex doesn't work anymore. Those that leave for a better environment are being replaced by conservative caravans aka retirees and their grandkids.