Randy Fine keeps Florida House seat for GOP after pre-voting jitters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The angst over Fine's fate and the possibility of losing a House seat once thought unlosable helped lead the Trump administration to pull Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be US ambassador to the United Nations last week.
48% : "Increasingly, those voters have shifted towards the Democrats, making low-turnout elections potentially better for them than general elections: after all, Democrats also were overperforming in 2023 special elections and Trump still won in 2024.
44% : The race had been expected to be a shoo-in for Republicans in a district Trump won by 30 percentage points in the November presidential election.
19% : but within the margin of error, prompting top Republicans such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to concede Fine would likely underperform Trump, with DeSantis calling the expected result a "reflection of the candidate that's running in that race.
10% : Gaetz resigned from Congress last year after Trump tapped him to be US attorney general before withdrawing from contention amid a House ethics investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use.

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