What was once a purple state can now be safely called red, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."
"Florida is off the board. It is a Republican state," DeSantis said. "We used to be a 1-point state; every election hung on how would Florida go. That is not true anymore, and I think that's a good thing for the party."
DeSantis attributed the shift to having 900,000 more Republicans than Democrats in the state thanks to both newcomers moving from COVID-19 lockdown states and longtime residents.
"I do think that migration has skewed amongst people who come to Florida not because they want to change the policies to reflect in Illinois or California or New York, but because they appreciate how Florida has done it differently from where they're coming."
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