blue state to red state, but texas is on that tra it trajectory. this completely changes it. look what happened in florida. is that a ron desantis phenomenon? a south florida phenomenon? lost miami-dade 20 points four years ago and flipped latino vote by 20 points in this favor. i don t think we ve ever seen a big american county move that quickly. it s a massive change. i don t think it s desantis. i think he s got strength down there, no question. so many people have moved in to texas. i think a lot of those people are republican voters. and, listen, a lot s changed. remember, when obama won florida in 12, won by 50,000 votes basically tied the cuban vote. a big change there. but desantis has a story to tell. i think the story he and his team will tell republicans is look what happened in the oasis of florida. i can do that for the country.
you in states like virginia. he go the crushed in 2018, well, you did, actually. he just sat there blaming you. in 2019. he lost again. governors, won in states like louisiana and kentucky. democratic governors! 20, lost. now 22, once again, donald trump has made you the biggest loser. i mean, come on. when are you going to wake up? you know, republicans, all right? historically, republicans had expected to win massively. do well in swing states, and also banking on upsets in new york. we all heard it yesterday morning. all the republican ads, yeah. no. in new hampshire? maggie hassan no.
is ron desantis s party and not donald trump s. yes. it s not donald trump s. i mean, everything trump touches politically dies. yes. he lost in 17. local races. negative touch. lost in 18. he lost governorships in the south in 19. lost in 20, and now, of course, 22 just a massive loss. i want to talk about something i didn t hear enough about last night, and that is that is how the final polls were showing that dobbs, overturning of a woman s right. didn t matter. didn t matter. i mean, david plouffe and others a lot smarter than me will always say, you don t know exactly who the electorate s going to be and why we shouldn t kick pollsters around. you never know what populists are going to go to the polls and but last night, early on, you started seeing what did voters today think were most
stuff is real and focus and why that s important, joe, to your point about governors. everyone focuses on federal elections and congress. it s the governors races where the people are closest to those candidates, and they re much more in the mix in terms of the narrative, and that, to me, says a lot with all of those those gubernatorial election deniers go down and tells me the american people are a lot more engaged than we have given them credit the for and proven in last polling we did in nbc. democracy was the one one issue going into the election. go to steve kornacki in a minute. kelly s looking good for the moment against blake masters. another election denying. don bulldock lost. trying to say reviewed the evidence. maybe the election was good. so he loses to maggie hassan in a race democrats were worried
election deniers returning in key races across the country, for the most part, lost big. and donald trump once again, i mean, come on, republicans. seriously. please stop putting your hand on the hot stove! it hurts. it hurts. donald trump once again draggeded your party down to defeat. [ laughter ] do i have to speak more slowly for you to understand? he lost the house for you. he lost the senate for you. he lost the white house for you. he was the first president since herbert hoover to lose all three! in one term. he lost the 2017 elections for