Today’s entry: With the GOP dropping Cheney for Stefanik a lot of people have talked about how Cheney voted with Trump more than Stefanik. No one talks about “Biden Scores”. I’d like to know how SFL’s reps are voting with Biden as President.
Bottom Line: It’s still early but there’s a very clear trend in Congressional voting patterns in South Florida. The Democrats are staying together. On everything. Not only have all of South Florida’s Congressional Democrats voted 100% of the time in the current Congress with President Biden but so have every Democrat in Florida’s delegation.
This makes Florida’s Democrats the hardest left of any large state’s delegation. Consider, for example, squad members Rashida Talib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have voted with Biden 93% of the time. Incidentally, all of South Florida’s Democrats had voting records to the left of AOC, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi in the previous congress as well.
This is an under-told story as Florida’s Democrats consistently have voting records that are the hardest left in the country. On the other side of the aisle, the results aren’t so uniform. South Florida’s Republicans have voted with President Biden as follows:
- Brian Mast: 6.3%
- Mario Diaz-Balart: 25%
- Maria Elvira-Salazar 33.3%
- Carlos Gimenez 37.5%
That’s part of a broader story. Congressional Republicans are generally less likely to vote in blocks.
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