Florida Dems died in 2018.
It was ruled a suicide.
LOL true. They turned what would've been a probable win with Gwen Graham into blowing it completely with someone under FBI investigation. Usually it's the Republicans that are the queens of kicking the own goal, but Florida Dems' massive fumble in 2018 arguably is what led directly to it being a safely red state at this juncture. With it, the Florida Supreme Court flipped from blue to unanimously red, and I think DeSantis had a lot to do with marketing Florida as the conservative retiree haven and thus the massive Republican vote sink it is now.
Even Gillum could've won if he didn't run a miserable joke of a campaign. I think I read that they saved (probably stole) millions of dollars instead of spending it on the last few weeks of the campaign. Bill Nelson didn't even try to win.
Yes, and if I remember right, I think Florida Dems essentially had a pathetic start to the cycle and came into it almost expecting to lose again, which obviously becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Even Gwen Graham's fundraising was atrocious compared to other swing state Dems. Nelson didn't start running ads til late summer 2018, and by then the damage was done. Completely and utterly embarrassing. It was the Dems' equivalent to the Republicans' comically bad 2022 whiffs in the big swing states.
