they have come to an end. at least in this election that s what we re going to show. people are going out and voting for something and not against. and by voting for something, we re returning the politics of decency and what s right and what s common between all of us. we ll worry about history later, but today, we re working to win. now, the governors race is locked in a dead heat. and if early voting numbers are any indication of what this race is going to be like, it will be nail biting. take a look at these updated numbers from the florida secretary of state. more than 5 million people have already voted, and if you break down those numbers from party, here s the breakdown. the republicans that are registered that have already voted, 40.1%. democrats, 40.5%. the rest, 19.4%, are no party
trump took this state by about 1% in 2016, and the midterms are no exception. let me set the scene for you because i m live in the heart of the financial district here in downtown miami. now, this polling place at a church, you don t see a line right now at the moment, but don t be fooled because by the time you woke up this morning, 39% of florida s registered voters had already voted. when you compare that to 2014, that s an increase of 62%. people here are involved. they re out voting. now, when you break down those numbers by party, that s when we get these razor thin margins that we re talking about. of course had is just an indicator because this is based on how people were registered. are you ready for this? the number of republicans is 40.1%. the percentage of democrats of
you don t know what the early vote is all about. for or against something. two things. context matters. let s take a look. that was early voting and absentee voting. it was early voting, not early and absentee. if you combine them, this time around republicans have 40.1% of the early and absentee votes in florida. the democrats have 40.6%. half a point. but that s only 24,000 votes. two years ago the democrats combined out of the two had a 96,000 vote margin. this time around if they were doing the same percentage that they had last time around they would have a 72,000 vote margin coming in out of absentee and early voteings. the republicans are overperforming by 1.8%. democrats are over performing by .8%. republicans won by 1.2%.
5,940, 645. if you look over here to the left, those computers right there, that s where they re taking some of the votes that were early voted and they fed them into the machines. they re verifying the votes. they re not tabulating. nobody has any idea who is ahead or behind in those who have voted in the state of florida. the clerks here you see right now are busy doing what they need to do to get the finalization together. and because so many people are curious about this state, it looks like ultimately those independent voters may be the ones who determine the very hotly contested governor s race as well as the senate race. that s because in early voting 40.1% of those who voted republican, 40.5% are democrats. so it s basically a split which leads in the early votes now. those who have voted 18.8 % who have no party affiliation
certainly has an impact on voters. now, remember. when we re looking at those who have early voted in the state of florida, we have a record number of early voters. 5 million i have written it down and tried to memorize it. 5,094,645 early voters at the polls and when you break it down by the party affiliations, assuming people are following their party affiliation, 40.1%, republicans and 40.5% which are democrats so let s break it down a little bit more now and take a look first at the republican candidate, ron desantis out of nowhere with the endorse. of president trump that took him through the primaries to where he is right now. and if those voters who believe in donald trump are motivated to go to the polls and that s the big question, it may be that he does get the votes he needs. however, one of the big questions that both republicans