Nearly 300 Republicans packed shoulder-to-shoulder maskless and sweating inside a Holiday Inn conference room this week in the heart of the Florida Panhandle to see their party's biggest political stars not named President Donald Trump. With Trump grounded in Washington, they chanted and cheered
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Nearly 300 Republicans packed shoulder-to-shoulder maskless and sweating inside a Holiday Inn conference room this week in the heart of the Florida Panhandle to see their party's biggest political stars not named President Donald Trump.
There is no question Trump will win the Florida Panhandle this fall. But more than that, he needs to run up the score to exceed his 2016 performance, when he won some counties by 40 and 50 points, to make up for weakness among older voters and suburbanites elsewhere in the state. With the election less than four weeks away, that task has become exponentially more difficult with the president infected by a virus that has killed 210,000 Americans on his watch.
It’s often said that the most valuable real estate in presidential politics is along Florida's Interstate 4 corridor that features growing neighborhoods of swing voters from Tampa through Orlando and Daytona Beach. Trump will travel to the corridor on Monday to visit Sanford. Samantha Hope Herring, who chairs the Walton County Democratic Party and has worked in Panhandle politics for years, says she's noticed a definite change on the ground in recent months, particularly among the area's large military community, which has been more open to posting pro-Democrat lawn signs than she can ever remember.Hope Herring's counterpart at the neighboring Bay County Republican Party, Debbie Wood, said she's noticed the Biden signs.
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