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‘Buckle up!’ Florida Gov. DeSantis offers dramatic prediction after midterms

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‘Buckle up!’ Florida Gov. DeSantis offers dramatic prediction after midterms

 

While Republicans swept Florida on Election Day, Democrats managed to flip many other key positions across the nation — sparking a big reaction from Gov. Ron DeSantis.

During a news conference in Lake Wales on Wednesday, DeSantis touched on the results, calling it a “100-year-type political earthquake.”

“This was not like 2018. This was not like 2006. This was much, much more severe,” he said. “And when you look at our sister state who we always compete with, Texas, and see not only did they lose the U.S. Senate race — which they haven’t lost one of those in 30 years — but they lost it by double digits. Then, they lose the governor’s race.”

Democratic candidate James Talarico won the Texas Senate race, with Gina Hinojosa winning the governor’s seat — a position not held by a Democrat since 1994.

In fact, Democrats took full control — both statehouse chambers and governors’ offices — in Texas and four other states where they previously shared power.

“That is not just a normal kind of bad, off election,” DeSantis argued. “That is a massive, massive sweep, and we saw that in other parts of the country.”

To that end, DeSantis claimed he’d never seen a year “that was worse for Republicans across the board for a midterm since I’ve been on God’s green earth.”

That said, DeSantis credited Amendment 3 for Republican turnout in Florida, saying that many voters came out to support the proposal and may not have otherwise turned up to vote.

By contrast, he credited poor performance at the national level for Republican losses, saying the results were a “message” aimed at federal lawmakers that reverberated at the local and state levels.

But perhaps his most dour message for Republicans was a prediction about the elections to come.

“Buckle up! It’s gonna be a lot different; the balance of power has shifted significantly with this election, and it’s not just for two years,” DeSantis stated. “I know we’re gonna have another election in two years and another after that… but when you get to a number like 56 in the Senate, then you can’t unring that bell in one election.”

DeSantis echoed that prediction on X, claiming Republicans may not be able to retake the Senate until 2032, or even the House in 2028.

Meanwhile, DeSantis said he plans to call a special session to help implement the latest property-tax reform, Amendment 3.

Per the governor, state leaders are expected to finish those plans by Jan. 1, 2027, when the amendment officially takes effect.

For more information about Amendment 3, click here.