
Democrats scored big with young voters around the nation in Tuesday night’s midterm elections, but one state bucked the trend and its standard bearer, not surprisingly, won in a landslide.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who defeated Charlie Crist by 20 percentage points to win re-election, led his party to victory with a stunning 49% of the vote in the 18-29 age group. The strong performance helped Sen. Marco Rubio and a host of GOP House candidates and statewide officials swamp Democrats in the Sunshine State, which was considered a battleground state just four years ago. The GOP’s share of the young vote in Florida dwarfed the party’s performance elsewhere.