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Former U.S. President Donald Trump has once again secured Florida, winning 30 electoral votes with a projected 56 percent of the vote, according to The Associated Press. Some 94 percent of the vote has been counted thus far.
Once considered a swing state, Florida has gone to Trump in three consecutive presidential elections. Despite his mass deportation plan, he remains popular among the state’s growing Venezuelan diaspora, who favor his economic policy and hard-line approach toward Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. According to CNN, initial exit polls indicate that 57 percent of Florida’s Latino votes went to Trump—with both Latino men (64 percent) and Latina women (51 percent) preferring the former president.
Although the state’s Senate race was deemed tight by some watchers, the Republican incumbent, Sen. Rick Scott, won some 55 percent of the vote, defeating former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell by a 13 percent margin, with 93 percent of votes counted.
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