Biden and Democrats Already Face Uphill Battle for Florida’s Hispanic Voters in 2024

Over the past six years, Florida’s Hispanic and Latino voters appear to be abandoning the Democratic Party, and as the 2024 elections get closer, President Joe Biden, and all other candidates sporting the blue Democrat label, could be in trouble.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez recently noted a steady rightward trend among Miami-Dade voters over the past four elections in a podcast interview. After a Hispanic majority has kept the southeast corner of the Sunshine State in a seemingly permanent shade of blue on the electoral maps, numbers show the essential guarantee for President Biden and the Democrats has faded.

In the 2016 presidential elections, Hillary Clinton held favor in the county by 30 percentage points over now-former president Donald Trump. By 2020, Trmp’s deficit to his Democratic challenger, sitting President Biden, was reduced to only 8 points.

In the 2018 gubernatorial election, Miami-Dade County chose Democrat Andrew Gillum over Governor DeSantis by 20 points. But in 2022, DeSantis won the county in his reelection bid by 10 points.