More impressive DeSantis win?

[Arizona Iced Tea]

2018, he pulled the upset beating Gillum by 0.4%. In 2022, he was expected to win by a large margin but no one expected a 19 point victory against Crist.

[Spectator]

2018 since that was probably the last cycle Florida could be considered a genuine swing state, and Democrats blew it by nominating a guy under FBI investigation. With it, they lost a US Senate seat, the state Supreme Court, and probably half a dozen US House seats this decade with it. The implications of that initial win cannot be overstated.

[TDAS04]

2022.  Winning by 19% is a lot for either party in a Florida Gubernatorial election, even for an incumbent.  I’m not sure how one could claim that the 2018 DeSantis win was all that impressive, at least by itself.  If Ben Nelson is losing to Rick Scott during the same cycle in the same state, it would seem that Republicans would hold the governorship by a little more than 0.4%, and Democrats had a weak structure in Florida anyway.

[Mr. Smith]

2022.  Because that was a blowout.

2018 had the immigrant caravan and Kavanaugh things going on and that affected the whole state. It's more impressive in retrospect that Nikki Fried (and Donna Shalala) won.

[President Johnson]

2022, because it was a massive margin even for Florida and in a nationally neutral year. In 2018, he faced a weak opponent.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Neither

[TwinGeeks99]

2022, because the overwhelming scale of his win (he even flipped Palm Beach County for crying out loud) has effectively taken Florida off the swing state board for everyone, especially when contrasted with what happened in most of the rest of the country. (New York notwithstanding)

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

DeSantis and Johnson, Vance and DeWine and Budd got a DeSantis bump, from IAN just like Obama with Sandy and Bush W with 911 he is UNDERPOLL Biden and D's like Trump he is a Romney clone that voted for Trump tax cuts in the H

Especially Johnson won by one pt and he is gonna lose or Gallagher in 28 in a Prez yr

[ProgressiveModerate]

I wasn't really that into politics in 2018, but from my understanding, any sane analysts always viewed it as a competitive race, even if they believed Gillum was slightly favored.

In 2022, literally no one, even the doomers and R hacks of this forum saw a win of that magnitude coming. I personally thought it was demographically near impossible, but how wrong I was.