Florida has been an afterthought in electoral politics over the last few cycles, but it is positioned to return to the forefront. No state looms larger as the Republican Party mulls its future.
It’s not just because two of the party’s top presidential hopefuls — Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio — are from the Sunshine State. The state’s growing diversity will make it far harder than commonly believed for Republicans to retake Florida, the nation’s most populous swing state in 2016. If the country’s growing diversity dooms the modern Republican Party, then Florida will be the first exhibition of the G.O.P.’s demographic death spiral. CONT.
Nate Cohn, The Upshot