OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — For all the attention paid to South Florida and the I-4 corridor during this year’s presidential election, it was actually one Central Florida county that showed one of the biggest swings.
Miami-Dade County is where Trump saw the largest gain from 2016 to 2020, but second on the list is Osceola County, the 18th largest county in the state.
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Patrick Ruffini is a Republican pollster with Echelon Insights. Going through final numbers from November, he sees the beginnings of a new Republican party, a working-class party, where dividing lines aren’t race but rather education.
“I think we could be seeing the beginning of a new working-class, multiethnic coalition,” Ruffini said.
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