Its Battle-Time For Trump And Biden In The Sunshine State

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Its Battle-Time For Trump And Biden In The Sunshine State

In several interviews with Floridians and many lawmakers, political strategists, politics watchers, and academics in Florida, a picture of a battleground state emerge which is largely unmoved by the Trump administration’s haphazard pandemic response and Biden’s numerous proposals to handle things differently.

Unlike Pennsylvania, a swing state where Trump’s re-election hopes look more dependent on the fallout of the pandemic. The electoral scene in Florida heading into the fall seems to appear like any other presidential election year: a diverse, 50-50 state that will be won just at the margins. This is mainly driven by economic reality and by how well each campaign is able to reach out to independent and indecisive voters.

As the economic toll in Florida, by some numbers, has not been as catastrophic as in other states and because Biden’s campaign has struggled in its efforts to reach voters virtually, the president might be spared from major pandemic-related political effects.

Alan Clendenin, the Southern caucus chair for the Democratic National Committee and a resident of Tampa commented, “The election here, more than anyone in recent memory, is going to be an ‘us versus them’ on both sides,” 

But its per capita COVID-19 death rate of 8 people per 100,000 is better compared to half of the other states and is well below the rates of the other states of a similar size. Statewide, the curve of new cases seems to have stopped rising in recent weeks, even after the state reopened its economy on Monday.

In addition, about 60 percent of the cases have occurred in the solidly blue trifecta of southern Florida counties Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach. Since March 14, almost 1.7 million workers in the state have lost their jobs.

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