Dan Bongino: Florida is no longer a swing state
Fox News host Dan Bongino discusses Florida's early voting and the state's Republican transformation.
The majority of Latino voters in Florida, who make up a large portion of the state's population, have a more favorable opinion of the GOP and plan on voting for Republican candidates over Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.
All eyes are on the Florida governor's race, where a recent Spectrum News/Siena College Poll found that 56% of Latino voters have a favorable opinion of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, while 22% have a favorable opinion of his Democratic challenger Rep. Charlie Crist.
If the election were held today, 61% of Latino voters said that they would vote for DeSantis to be re-elected as their governor, while only 36% said that Crist has their vote.
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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, and former Democratic governor and former Democratic Congressman Charlie Crist. (Win McNamee, Octavio Jones)
Florida Latinos also favored the GOP candidate in the state's Senate race. According to the poll, 53% of Hispanics have a favorable opinion of incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio, whereas only 23% have a favorable opinion of his Democratic challenger, Rep. Val Demings.
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When asked whom they would vote for if the 2022 midterm elections were held today, 52% of Latinos said their vote would be for Rubio, while 37% named Demings as their choice candidate.
Florida Democratic Senate candidate Val Demings and incumbent Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Gerardo Mora)
The poll also found that the majority of Hispanic voters have a more favorable opinion of former President Donald Trump than of current Democratic President Joe Biden. A total of 61% have an unfavorable opinion of Biden, while only 37% of Latino voters in Florida, historically a perennial swing state, view Biden in a positive light.
Nearly 50% of Latino voters in the Sunshine State are fond of Trump, whose Florida residence was recently raided by the FBI, while 46% have an unfavorable opinion of the former president.
President Biden, left, and former President Donald Trump. (Brandon Bell; Chip Somodevilla)
The new polling data reflects an apparent demographical shift among Latino voters this cycle, a group that historically leaned Democrat, after Biden's economy tanked, gas prices spiked and violent crime surged in cities across the U.S.
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The Spectrum News/ Siena College Poll was conduced Oct. 30-Nov. 1, with a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
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