{"id":54436,"date":"2022-11-12T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54436"},"modified":"2022-11-14T12:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T20:16:47","slug":"florida-democrats-grapple-with-uncertain-future-after-midterm-wipeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54436","title":{"rendered":"Florida Democrats grapple with uncertain future after midterm wipeout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are facing an existential crisis in Florida after a red wave engulfed the nation\u2019s once-premier battleground state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the Democratic wipeout in Florida is hard to understate. Tuesday\u2019s elections saw Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis\u00a0(R) and Sen.\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0(R) win landslide victories and Republicans clinch supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature. For the first time since Reconstruction, no Democrat will hold statewide office in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The election results have only intensified the infighting and soul-searching that have long roiled the state Democratic Party. The question on many Democrats\u2019 minds now isn\u2019t whether they can mount a comeback in the next few years, but whether they can even remain a viable political force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are facing an existential crisis&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54437,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54436\/revisions\/54437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}