2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Florida

[THG]

DeSantis has a lot of influence over the FL Legislature (I know people in the Florida SL and I know DeSantis).

That being said, the final map (while far more aggressive than the State Senate maps) won’t exactly be the DeSantis proposed map. I do expect the final map to possibly draw out FL-05 and have a similar partisan lean (18-19 Trump seats minimum), but it will shore up some R incumbents such as Salazar a bit more.

[THG]

DeSantis has a lot of influence over the FL Legislature (I know people in the Florida SL and I know DeSantis).

That being said, the final map (while far more aggressive than the State Senate maps) won’t exactly be the DeSantis proposed map. I do expect the final map to possibly draw out FL-05 and have a similar partisan lean (18-19 Trump seats minimum), but it will shore up some R incumbents such as Salazar a bit more.

Except shoring up Salazar and Giminez more is hard without making Diaz-Balart mad; the Senate proposals already make his district into a Clinton one. The GOP seems to be betting on the idea that 2016 Miami-Dade was a fluke and 2020 will be the norm going forwards.

Looking at the voter registration trends in Miami-Dade as well as the insane drivel the FL Dems are saying about Florida Hispanics, that’s probably a very good bet the GOP is making.

[THG]

IMO, a telling quote about redistricting in Florida from a fairly powerful State Senator:

“There seems to be a viewpoint that because a chamber has a map..that we are at a point in the process where we are wrapping it up and done” Rodrigues said. “I..point out we are at the very beginning of the process"

- FL Sen. Ray Rodrigues said in relation to the Desantis map

Link: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/487285-ron-desantis-map-sets-up-tension-with-legislature-over-redistricting-process/