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Trump Just Became the First GOP Presidential Candidate to Win Miami-Dade Since '88

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Donald Trump is the first Republican presidential candidate to win Miami-Dade County since 1988 .

Florida Democrats had held out hope for the once-Democratic stronghold.

The county also flipped red in the 2022 midterm election that returned Republican Ron DeSantis to the governor's mansion in Tallahassee .

Loyola says Trump won over voters who "remember who violated their bodily autonomy by forcing them to take medicines they didn’t want and didn’t need; who sought to censor and persecute them for expressing doubts about official policy or disagreeing with required new definitions of words like "boy" and "girl"; who traumatized their children with mask mandates for a year for no medically justifiable reason." Adds Loyola , " Trump won voters who are worried about the threat to democracy because people know who the real threat to democracy is.".