Florida Democrats elected former agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried to be their next party chair in the state after they were blown out across the board in historic fashion during last year’s midterm elections.

Fried, a failed gubernatorial candidate who could not even win her primary race, said after being elected to the role, “You better believe we are going to take it to Ron DeSantis every damn day.”

DeSantis crushed the expectations of even his staunchest allies, winning by more than 1.5 million votes in a 19.4-point margin over Democrat Charlie Crist for the state’s governorship.

DeSantis won 62 of Florida’s 67 counties, including 59 counties by double digits. DeSantis won Miami-Dade County, the largest county in the state and a Democrat stronghold, by 11 points. He won Palm Beach County, the third largest county in the state and another Democrat stronghold, by three points.

The win by the 44-year-old governor was felt by down ballot by Republicans who also crushed their opponents. The historic election is the reason why Republicans now control the U.S. House of Representatives and why Republicans now have supermajorities in the Florida state House and Senate.

“The Florida Democratic Party congratulates @NikkiFried on being elected to lead our party as the new Chair,” the Florida Democrats wrote on Twitter. “We look forward to working together to elect Democrats up and down the ballot to deliver for Floridians.”

Top DeSantis aide Christina Pushaw responded to the tweet with a map showing Republicans’ dominance in the state. “Aww congrats Nikki!” Pushaw wrote.

Aww congrats Nikki! pic.twitter.com/7Iab5oUXah

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) February 25, 2023

“Hell yeah,” conservative commentator David Reaboi tweeted.

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Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler tweeted, “At this point, I may need to discuss with our staff the need to list all activity conducted by the @FlaDems as an in-kind to the @FloridaGOP.”

The popular conservative Twitter account AG responded, “I’ve noticed this trend where state parties that are failing and focused on only attracting a dwindling base have a tendency to double down instead of looking to adjust. Republicans are doing it in AZ, MI etc and now you see FL Dems following suit.”

I’ve noticed this trend where state parties that are failing and focused on only attracting a dwindling base have a tendency to double down instead of looking to adjust. Republicans are doing it in AZ, MI etc and now you see FL Dems following suit. https://t.co/su8HMNrgds

— AG (@AGHamilton29) February 25, 2023

“Got her doors absolutely blown off in a primary by a guy who got his doors absolutely blown off in a general,” said former Republican Governors Association Communications Director Jesse Hunt in reference to Fried losing her primary race to Crist. “But sure, I love this for FL Dems.”

Now they’re guaranteed to never win anything in Florida again. https://t.co/oCIFDgdqaO pic.twitter.com/SBgu2GnYgo

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 25, 2023

President Joe Biden said this week that there’s a “possibility” that communist Chinese leader Xi Jinping didn’t know the spy balloon was flying over the continental U.S.

The Pentagon first detected the Chinese spy balloon over U.S. airspace on January 28, but Biden allowed it to travel across the U.S. for a week before finally having it shot down in early February off the coast of South Carolina.

“Let me just ask you this first, do we know definitively yet whether or not that spy balloon was flying over the continental U.S. intentionally?” ABC News host David Muir asked.

“It is almost not relevant once it was over the United States,” Biden responded.

“So there’s a possibility President Xi didn’t know?” Muir asked.

“There is a possibility of that,” Biden claimed.

"Do we know definitively yet whether or not that [Chinese] spy balloon was flying over the continental U.S. intentionally?"

BIDEN (who watched it fly over the entire U.S. before shooting it down): "It is almost not relevant once it was over the United States" pic.twitter.com/fc9m5Yv5R2

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 24, 2023

When Biden finally gave the order to shoot it down over the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. military used a single air-to-air AIM-9X Sidewinder missile fired from an F-22 Raptor to carry out the task.

Glen David VanHerck, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), said that the balloon was up to 200 feet tall and weighed “in excess of a couple thousand pounds.”

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After the spy balloon was shot down, the U.S. subsequently downed three more unidentified objects over Alaska, Lake Huron, and Canada.

“It is also common for U.S. balloons to illegally enter the airspace of other countries,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin claimed without evidence. “Since last year, U.S. high-altitude balloons have illegally flown over China’s airspace more than 10 times without the approval of Chinese authorities.”

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said that the communist nation’s claims were a lie and that China was trying to deflect from the embarrassing situation they have caused.

“It is China that has a high-altitude surveillance balloon program for intelligence collection, connected to the People’s Liberation Army, that it has used to violate the sovereignty of the United States and over 40 countries across five continents,” Watson tweeted.

“This is the latest example of China scrambling to do damage control,” she continued. “It has repeatedly and wrongly claimed the surveillance balloon it sent over the United States was a weather balloon and to this day has failed to offer any credible explanations for its intrusion into our airspace and the airspace of others.”