Florida May Be Worse For Trump Than He Thinks

There are plenty of news stories about Republicans "catching up" with Democrats in early voting in Florida, but those numbers aren't telling the full story. While Democrats still hold a large advantage in total number of voters, the numbers that keep getting overlooked are the number of registered Republicans who are not voting for Trump, AND the number of independent voters who have already voted. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's really happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Um, we need to talk about Florida for a few moments here. And the reason we needed to talk about Florida is the fact that there've been a lot of headlines in the last couple of days, telling us that Republicans are closing the gap in Florida. Voting Republicans have an edge on Democrats. And to an extent, no, they really don't. Actually, I can't even justify the, to the extent part there. Um, here's what's happening right now in the state of Florida. As of yesterday, Democrats still hold about a 300,000 vote advantage over Republicans. Now that's a pretty significant margin. A, uh, they have about a 5%, uh, margin in total number of votes cast over Republicans. So Democrats are still women winning. Yes, Republicans are showing up in greater numbers to vote early, but Democrats absolutely crushed it on the mail-in ballots. And so that's why they hold the edge.

Um, so Democrats, again, they have the edge early voting numbers are absolutely through the roof down here in Florida and youth vote. And that's a big one. That's what's getting overlooked in these polls of, Oh no. Or are the Democrats going to be able to pull it off or is Florida going to be a Republican state? The youth vote over a quarter million already, uh, is dwarfing what we saw in 2016. And that is a demographic that overwhelmingly goes for the Democrats. Now, here are the two numbers that I think are the most important, and these are not necessarily being reflected in any of these stories about Democrats have the advantage or Republicans have the advantage or whatever. These two numbers right here are going to tell us what's going to happen on election day. First and foremost, remember I mentioned the Democrats early voting, Republican, early voting.

What about the independence? The people with no party affiliation, they make up 20% over 1 million of the early votes already cast people who say, I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican 20%. That obviously is a massive percentage. And over a million votes, that's more than twice the amount needed to swing any election from the state of Florida and over 20 years. So there you go. We don't know how these people voted. We don't know which way they're leaning. We don't know if these were some of the former felons who were able to pay off their poll taxes and get the right to vote back because many of them were able to do that. So which way are they going to go? They're going to vote for the party that consistently tried to strip them of the right to vote. Are they going to go with the other folks who knows big mystery, right?

I mean, really we can't predict which way they're going to go. People vote against their own best interests all the time, especially down here in Florida. So we'll have to wait and see. The other statistic that I think is going to play a huge role down here in Florida is the elderly vote. The elderly vote put Trump in the white house. In 2016, he was able to convince, uh, elderly voters down here in the state of Florida to vote for him. That gave him an edge that gave him Florida, that led to him, going to the white house with the electoral vote. Now in 2016, Trump held a 17 point advantage among elderly voters in the state of Florida. His handling of the pandemic has now given Joe Biden, the lead with elderly voters here in Florida.

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