19% Of FL Republicans Vote Against Trump In Primary

Newsweek reports:

Donald Trump suffered a blow in Tuesday’s primary in Florida, a state he only narrowly won in the 2020 presidential election, after thousands of Republicans refused to vote for him.

While the former president won the primary with 910,857 votes, 81.2 percent of the overall share, some 197,000 people, or 17.8 percent, voted for either Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis, despite both candidates having dropped out of the race.

The results suggest the former president is losing support in Florida compared with the previous election in 2020. That year, he won about 94 percent of the state vote in the primary.

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Ohio GOP primary showing very similar results as Florida: Trump headed to well over 800,000 votes, but Haley/DeSantis/Christie combined will end up at around 200,000.

So in Florida & Ohio both, about 1 of every 5 Republican primary voters made a point of going against Trump: https://t.co/RpwICtGhOx

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 20, 2024

The results of the Florida GOP primary should terrify Trump and the GOP.

Florida is a closed primary state. Nikki Haley is getting 15% of the vote.

That’s a MASSIVE number of registered R’s casting a protest vote against Trump. They aren’t going to vote for him in November. pic.twitter.com/1y4XDdopHv

— Peter Henlein (@SwissWatchGuy) March 19, 2024