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[Florida Research @FlaResearch]

Facts about 8/23 Florida primaries:
Republicans had a 5.1% advantage in the partisan makeup of the electorate.
That’s 188k more ballots than Democrats out of the 3.7 million cast.
And unlike with Dems, there was no statewide Senate or Gubernatorial race to drive GOP turnout.

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Florida Democrat Gubernatorial Nominee Charlie Crist, wearing a Ukraine flag pin, has some harsh words for Floridians who support Gov. DeSantis.

[RNC Research @RNCResearch]

Democrat nominee for Florida governor Charlie Crist attacks supporters of Gov. @RonDeSantisFL as "haters":

"I don't want your vote. If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there!”

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JUST NOW: After winning the Democrat primary for governor, @CharlieCrist goes on CNN to call Joe Biden "an exceptional president" and praise what Biden "has done for our country, has done for our world."

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Teacher union boss Randi Weingarten congratulates Charlie Crist on winning the Democrat nomination for governor.

Weingarten is infamous for lobbying to keep schools closed for over a year, citing a discredited conspiracy theory from Florida Democrat politician Rebekah Jones.

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NEW: Florida's unemployment rate is 2.7% - the lowest it's been since February 2020.

Florida has 4.8% more persons employed in July 2022 versus July 2019.

That's not the case for blue states:
California (-0.6%) since 2019
Illinois (-2.7%) since 2019
New York (-4.5%) since 2019

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Today, Joe Biden is in Rehoboth Beach. It is his 94th day on vacation this year.

Biden has spent 229 days on vacation since taking office.

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Supply & Demand tells you where people would rather be:
Renting a U-Haul to move from California to Florida is almost 3 times as expensive as Florida to California.

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Democrat Attorney General candidate Daniel Uhlfelder became infamous for dressing up in a Halloween costume. His goal: to scare people into staying home, due to covid spread on beaches.

The science shows that outdoor environments like the beach pose negligible risk.

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Today in Miami, Florida Democrat leaders condemned Gov. DeSantis busing migrants to Delaware. @JuanMoreNews asked if they condemn the Biden Administration for using companies like MVM to secretly smuggle migrant kids and hand them to un-vetted adults:
https://t.co/rn1dJiFw8v

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https://t.co/OI4qlKTo36

[RNC Research @RNCResearch]

Today is Joe Biden’s 93rd day on vacation for just this year.

Since taking office, Biden has spent 228 days on vacation.

[Florida Research @FlaResearch]

With the announcement of Fauci's retirement, today is a good day to look back on times he and his supporters like @CharlieCrist were wrong.

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Florida Democrat leader Anna Eskamani searches her own name on Twitter, but she did not respond to the question about the environmental repercussions of Green New Deal Democrats renting airplanes to fly juvenile banners.

[Rep. Anna V. Eskamani, PhD 🔨 @AnnaForFlorida]

Almost didn't see this because y'all didn't tag me but MY GOD @FloridaGOP is OBSESSED with me.

Please stop astroturfing & realize many Floridians don't like DeSantis and when you censor speech on the ground folks will find ways to express themselves, including in the sky.

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Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum (WEF) releases a statement in support of Biden's inflation act: "The $369 billion earmarked for clean energy and climate change...is an unprecedented level of support from the US Federal Government for the transition to sustainable energy."

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NEW🚨 Florida Democrat gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist, at a campaign stop in DeLand, says: "Voting early -- that's important! They do it often in Chicago." His supporters laugh.

Fact Check: Casting multiple votes in the same election is fraud, a serious crime in Florida.

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Today is August 22, 2022.

It has been 193 days since Joe Biden was last interviewed by a news outlet.

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Here is a thread with photos of the raft taken by FIU Professor Mario Loyola, in Surfside. https://t.co/Uc6DBln6xj

[Mario Loyola @Mario_A_Loyola]

This horrifying wreckage washed up on our beach in Surfside FL today, burned out, still smelling of gasoline and leaving a trail of ashes in the water. 100% Cuban refugees trying to make it to freedom. Almost certainly they died, prob overnight. (1/5)

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Sad news today from Miami. A burned-out raft washed up on the beach. It had been carrying Cuban refugees.

Carlos Smith, who identifies as "the first LGBTQ Latinx" elected to the Florida House, asked if there is any evidence that socialism has hurt anyone.

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Florida is #1 in the USA for domestic migration, with hundreds of thousands of new residents from New York and other blue states. Some speculate this influx will turn Florida blue.

But, since 2018, Democrats have lost ground in 65 out of 67 counties in Florida.

h/t @TomBevanRCP

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While @FlaDems leader Anna Eskamani raises the alarm about a "climate emergency," her fellow Florida Democrats are renting airplanes to fly banners that mock and threaten politicians they dislike.

What is the carbon footprint of this campaign?

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FACT CHECK: Florida has not banned "To Kill a Mockingbird." In fact, it's recommended by @EducationFL for 8th grade English Language Arts students.

Along with other classics, "To Kill a Mockingbird" was banned by the school board in Burbank, California (home of Disney HQ).