All those sunbelt governors as it is are going to be fine from their own base, as much as I hate to say it. But they could've very well awakened quite a bit of independent or lean-democratic voters that otherwise had no inclination or intent voting. It's nowhere near the effect of some dicey issues like Obamacare had on many conservative democrats back in 2010-2014.
Unfortunately the truth is quite a lot of people wouldn't care too much. And with or without Covid we would be in a similar spot, but maybe subtract 2 percent. But it isn't going to affect too much.
The only one I am going to say that likely was affected was DeSantis since he was riding pretty high especially after Rick Scott's administration, but managed to mangle it along with a pretty ineffective state-government. So he very well may have had the most to lose especially
if it forbodes Dems finally latching onto Florida for years to come. But even then I think a lot of this will blow over and he will still be in a pretty strong position just among his base.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-ron-desantis-popularity-september-2020-20200915-qs5qfrpz5ffutfu67vysmlg2yi-story.htmlNone of this covid stuff is going to really rock the shifts we've been seeing, and most of the environment is going to continue on with its typical trajectory.
