Vice President Harris is nipping at former President Trump’s heels in his home state of Florida, a pollster from Suffolk University says after a new Sunshine State survey.
The USA Today/Suffolk University/WSVN-TV poll found Harris just 5 points behind Trump among likely Florida voters, 42 percent to 47 percent, just outside the poll’s margin of error.
Florida has a million more registered Republicans than Democrats, and Trump won the state in both 2016 and 2020.
“Given those circumstances, I was surprised that Harris is within striking distance, being only 5 points down,” David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, told USA Today in a Tuesday report.
It is so hard to win without Florida for Republicans. He could win PA, WI, GA. AZ, NV and still lose if he didn’t win Florida.
But it’s a moot point because Republicans don’t lose FL outside of landslides anymore, happened for Obama 08 but not 2012 and the state has gotten redder since then.