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    The results of the House of Representatives are counted. How about in Florida?

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    Donald Trump was elected 47th President of the United States on Tuesday and looks set to be supported by a Republican-led House of Representatives and Senate in 2025.

    In the early morning hours of Wednesday, November 7, it was confirmed that the GOP had won control of the Senate, and shortly after, Trump’s victory was also confirmed.

    In Florida, Republican Sen. Rick Scott was re-elected and is aiming to become the next Senate Majority Leader, which will be his second attempt. Leader of the Senate Mitch McConnellwho is the longest-serving leader of the party in the Senate in US history, resign.

    Florida has 28 seats in the House of Representatives, and more than half of those seats are held by Republicans.

    Here’s which party will likely have majority control of the House of Representatives in 2025, as some races are still up for grabs and how many of Florida’s House seats are currently held by Republicans.

    Who will control the House in 2025? Here are the latest results from the house race

    Before Election Day, the House of Representatives was controlled by a GOP majority, but a few changes in the House could shift it to Democrats.

    According to 270 to Win, as of Thursday, Nov. 7, the Republican Party is leading in House races, but that could change pending resolutions in the toss-up election. And while some seats are still up for grabs, other familiar faces have kept their seats in the House.

    Speaker of the House Mike JohnsonR-Louisiana and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New Yorkthey have already won re-election. In Florida, Democrats fielded candidates in hopes of ousting incumbent Republicans, but the state remained red. There are no eliminated elections listed for Florida.

    According to the 270 to Win Florida House race tracker, there is four seats that could still tilt away from the incumbentsbut they are not throwing races. Of the remaining 24 seats that have been marked “safe for the incumbent,” seven are held by Democrats.

    Who was elected to the Florida House of Representatives?

    Here are Florida’s representatives in the US House and the committees they served on, respectively www.house.gov:

    • Sector 1: Matt Gaetz, R., Armed Services, Select Subcommittee on Arming the Fed, Judiciary
    • District 2: Neal Dunn, R., Energy and Trade, Select Comm on US-China Strategic Competition
    • Sector 3: Kat Cammack, R., Agriculture, Select Subcommittee on Fed Government Harmonization, Energy and Trade
    • Sector 4: Aaron Bean, R., Education and the workforce, Transportation and infrastructure, Small business
    • District 5: John Rutherford, R., Credits, Ethics
    • District 6: Michael Waltz, R., Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Accountability, Intelligence
    • District 7: Cory Mills, R., Armed Services, Foreign Affairs
    • District 8: Mike Haridopolos, R., newly elected
    • District 9: Darren Soto, D., Agriculture, Energy and Commerce (This election has not been officially marked as “safe” for Soto, according to 270 to Win)
    • District 10: Maxwell Frost, D., Oversight and Accountability, Science, Space and Technology
    • District 11: Daniel Webster, R., Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Science, Space and Technology
    • District 12: Gus Bilirakis, R., Energy and Commerce
    • District 13: Anna Paulina Luna, R., Oversight and Accountability, Natural Resources (This election has not been officially marked as “safe” for Luna, according to 270 to Win)
    • District 12: Kathy Castor, D., Energy and Trade, Select Comm on US-China Strategic Competition
    • Sector 15: Laurel Lee, R., House Administration, Homeland Security, Judiciary (This election has not been officially marked as “safe” for Lee, according to 270 to Win)
    • District 16: Vern Buchanan, R., Joint Committee on Taxation, Ways and Means
    • District 17: Greg Steube, R., Select Subcommittee on Fed Government Harmonization, Ways and Means
    • District 18: Scott Franklin, R., Credits, Science, Space and Technology, Veterans Affairs
    • District 19: Byron Donalds, R., Financial Services, Supervision and Accountability
    • District 20: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D., Foreign Affairs, Veterans Affairs
    • District 21: Brian Mast, R., Foreign Affairs|Transportation and Infrastructure
    • District 22: Lois Frankel, D., Credits
    • District 23: Jared Moskowitz, D., External Affairs, Oversight and Accountability
    • District 24: Frederica Wilson, D., Education and the workforce, transport and infrastructure
    • District 25: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D., Appropriations, Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Fed Govt
    • District 26: Mario Diaz-Balart, R., Credits
    • District 27: Maria Salazar, R., Foreign Affairs, Small Business (This election has not been officially marked as “safe” for Salazar, according to 270 to Win)
    • District 28: Carlos Gimenez, R., Armed Services, Homeland Security, Select Comm on US-China Strategic Competition

    Who controls the Senate?

    The US Senate had 34 places to hold at the beginning of election day. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Republicans confirmed their control of the Senate, with 52 seats for the GOP.

    What happens now that Trump is president? When is Inauguration Day?

    Now that Trump has been elected as the next president, the next steps begin in December.

    Before Trump returns to the White House, states must issue certificates of verification, voters must then vote in their states, and finally, the electoral votes arrive. Once completed, it will head to Washington, DC to the archivist who will send sets of certificates to Congress as requested. On January 6, Congress will convene and count the electoral votes.

    Finally, we come to Inauguration Day, which takes place on January 20th every four years, where Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will be sworn in. In 2025, Inauguration Day falls on a Monday.

    Which states flipped in 2024? Was Florida a swing state?

    Florida was not a swing state for this general election.

    In a report from USA TODAYnoted that while the GOP’s big wins in Florida over the past two election cycles have drawn national attention, the state has been trending red for decades. The previously more politically “purple” state has moved more red since Donald Trump’s presidency in 2016.

    There was a time when the state was considered to have more influence in deciding the outcome of elections. They point to the 2000 presidential election, where it took a month for George W. Bush to be declared the winner by just 537 votes.

    “Inflows of Cubans, retirees, service workers to the booming theme park economy near Orlando and other groups have resulted in a much more diverse state — both economically and politically — than many of its southern brethren.” , according to 270 To Win.

    “Consequently, it went through a period when it was seen as the ultimate battleground state, its population a microcosm of the country as a whole.”

    Here are the states which voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election that Trump won on Tuesday:

    • Arizona
    • Georgia
    • Michigan
    • Nevada
    • Pennsylvania
    • Wisconsin

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