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BY STEVE BOUSQUET
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
November 04, 2018 11:21 AM
Updated November 04, 2018 01:10 PM
Early voting surged to its highest levels yet in Floridas biggest counties on Saturday, giving Democrats new hope for a blue wave that could catapult Andrew Gillum to the governors mansion and keep Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate.
Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough and Orange, the five biggest blue counties, all reported their highest one-day early voting totals of the 2018 campaign.
As a result, on a day when President Donald Trump rallied thousands of Republicans in Pensacola, the GOPs ballot advantage over the Democrats shrank to six-tenths of 1 percentage point (0.6), with GOP ballots at 40.8 percent of the statewide total and Democrats at 40.2 percent.
Those numbers are the combined early and vote-by-mail ballots cast by Republican and Democratic voters in all 67 counties.
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