Trump Beats Biden in Battleground State Florida, Race Still Too Tight to Call

By Mary Anne R. (staff@latinpost.com) First Posted: Nov 03, 2020 11:12 PM EST

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots at the Town 'N Country Regional Public Library on November 3, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. After a record-breaking early voting turnout, Americans head to the polls on the last day to cast their vote for incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. (Photo : Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

U.S. President Donald Trump is leading in swing state Florida as polls have closed in most swing key states.

However, the race is too close to call, according to an NBC News report.

Trump has garnered 51 percent of the vote in the state, while Biden is standing at 48.1 percent with 92 percent of the expected votes in.

The current percentage was recorded at 9:30 p.m.

Winning Florida

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, announced the state win for Trump.

"Florida voters have made their voices heard, delivering a BIG WIN for President," DeSantis tweeted as reported by a Sun Sentinel report.

Sun Sentinel said that Trump has always been confident in winning Florida, which he said was his home state last year.

Biden is not performing better than Hillary in Miami-Dade County, which is considered home for the Cuban-American community.

However, Biden is having better results than Clinton did in 2016 in other Florida counties.

Democratic strategist Kevin Cate wrote on Twitter that he does not see a way for Biden to win Florida.

"You look at those Miami-Dade numbers and see how this thing completely changed, this race completely changed," Sen. Rick Scott was quoted in a Sun Sentinel report.

Most analysts agree that Trump needs to win Florida to ensure another term in the presidential seat.

Meanwhile, Biden's campaign aides said that Biden can have many ways to win the presidential election that does not include Florida.

In Broward County, Biden had 64.7 percent of the vote against Trump's 34.5 percent.

However, this was not enough to surpass Trump's garnered voter in Miami-Dade County. Biden was also leading in Palm Beach County with 56.1 percent and Trump at 43 percent.

Polls have now closed in most of the 13 battleground states where the presidency will be decided. These battleground states are Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

It also includes New Hampshire, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Texas.

Trump won Oklahoma and Indiana, while Biden is taking states like New York and his home state Delaware.

Early Voting

Before the polls opened on Tuesday, over nine million people have already voted early through mail or at in-person early voting centers.

Usually, Republicans vote more by mail and Democrats are taking great advantage of in-person early voting.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic has also changed the voting patterns of the public.

Democrats then shifted to mail ballots, with polls showing them to be more concerned than Republicans about the pandemic.

Republicans then opted to not vote by mail after Trump falsely accuse mail voting to be linked with fraud.

Black and Hispanic Voters

A trump adviser said the campaign allocated significant resources to sway Hispanic voters in Florida.

Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the Trump campaign, said that there is so much energy in Hispanic voters.

Miller added that the Trump campaign also tried to court Black voters, including through ads on urban radio stations in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, and Miami.

In 2016, Trump won just by 1.6 percentage points.

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