On election night, Trump defeated Harris in the Sunshine State by 13.1 percentage points, flipping six counties and winning by the biggest margin since 1988.

[7][8] Williamson and fellow Democratic candidate Cenk Uygur held a press conference over Zoom on December 1 criticizing the move.

[9] On December 11, 2023, a voter filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to add Phillips's, Williamson's, and Uygur's names to the ballot.

58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was spotted hiding in nearby shrubbery while aiming a rifle at a member of Trump's security detail.

[19] A Secret Service agent fired upon Routh, who fled the scene and was later captured in Martin County.

[20] The incident occurred two months after Trump survived a previous assassination attempt while speaking at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.

[118][self-published source] In 2020, Republican Donald Trump (who changed his resident state from New York to Florida in 2019[119]) carried the state again by 3.4 percentage points, an improvement from his 1.2% margin in 2016, despite Trump losing re-election nationwide and polls pointing to a narrow Democratic win in Florida.

Florida handed Republican Donald Trump a decisive victory, doing so by a margin of 1,427,087 votes—his second-largest state win in terms of vote count, behind Texas.