Florida Governor Ron DeSantis knows what's coming.
New York City's new socialist mayor is about to send a wave of refugees south.
And Ron DeSantis had one surprising response to Zohran Mamdani's socialist victory that left people stunned.
DeSantis trolls Mamdani's socialist victory with border wall poll
Democrat Socialist Zohran Mamdani's landslide victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo shocked the political establishment Tuesday night.¹
At 34, Mamdani became New York City's first Muslim mayor and its youngest in over a century.²
He ran on promises to freeze rents, expand social housing, and launch city-run grocery stores.³
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis saw what was coming before the votes were even counted.
The Florida Governor wasted zero time trolling Mamdani's win by posting a poll on X asking his 3.3 million followers how the Sunshine State should respond to the inevitable exodus.⁴
His three options: "Build a FL border wall," "Tariff all transplants," or "Recruit new transplants."⁵
More than 45,000 Floridians weighed in before the poll closed Thursday morning.⁶
Building a border wall won with nearly 49 percent of the vote.⁷
Tariffing new transplants came in second at 37 percent.⁸
Only 14 percent wanted to recruit the New Yorkers fleeing Mamdani's socialist paradise.⁹
"Have you filed that bill?" DeSantis jokingly asked Florida State Representative Peggy Gossett-Seidman after she suggested tariffing everyone fleeing New York City.¹⁰
DeSantis knows exactly what's about to happen because he's watched it play out for years.
When Democrats destroy their cities with radical policies, their own voters flee to red states.
Then those same voters bring their politics with them and start voting for Democrats all over again.
It's a pattern DeSantis has been tracking closely.
The exodus numbers tell the whole story
DeSantis appeared on Fox News Tuesday night with Sean Hannity and laid out the data.¹¹
"You look at all 49 other states since I've been governor, look at who's migrated to Florida — all 49, more Republicans have moved to Florida than Democrats," DeSantis explained.¹²
The numbers don't lie about what New York City voters just did to themselves.
"When I got elected, we had 300,000 more registered Democrats in Florida. Today, we have 1.4 million more Republicans," DeSantis stated.¹³
"Nobody has ever seen a change that profound," he added.¹⁴
A recent poll found that 9 percent of New Yorkers will "definitely" leave the city with Mamdani as mayor.¹⁵
That's 765,000 people out of the city's 8.5 million population.¹⁶
Another 25 percent said they would "consider" moving.¹⁷
Those aren't just random survey numbers — luxury realtors in Miami told CBS that New Yorkers are already exploring relocations due to fears about crime and taxes.¹⁸
"The No. 1 thing that moves people to wanna flee these jurisdictions is the collapse of public safety," DeSantis said on Hannity's show.¹⁹
He's not wrong about what drives people out of Democrat-run cities.
Mamdani previously called for defunding the New York Police Department.²⁰
Wall Street executives who spent over $40 million trying to stop Mamdani are now openly discussing whether to relocate their businesses.²¹
But here's what really fires DeSantis up about this whole situation.
Republicans lose when Democrats export their voters
DeSantis connected the dots on Tuesday's election results in a way that should terrify every Republican watching blue state residents flee to red states.
"If you just take all the Republicans who've left New Jersey since I've been governor and moved to Florida — if they could have still voted in New Jersey, he would have won," DeSantis said about Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli's loss.²²
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1985901104450978297
New Jersey elected Democrat Mikie Sherrill as governor the same night Mamdani won.²³
Virginia also swung hard left, with Democrats winning up and down the ballot.²⁴
Florida Republican Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia put it bluntly about what New Yorkers need to understand if they're moving south.
"If you want to come to the Sunshine State leave your leftist ideology home," Ingoglia posted. "Don't New York our Florida."²⁵
U.S. Senator Rick Scott echoed the warning while making clear Florida would welcome freedom-loving Americans.
"Florida has welcomed those fleeing communist and socialist regimes for decades," Scott posted on X. "Tonight is no different — Florida will welcome all freedom-loving New Yorkers!"²⁶
https://twitter.com/ScottforFlorida/status/1985901479324979553
President Trump made his position clear when he told businesses in New York City that Miami is a refuge if they're considering relocating.²⁷
Even Texas Governor Greg Abbott joked that he would impose a 100 percent tariff on New Yorkers moving to Texas.²⁸
The jokes carry a serious message about what Republican states are watching happen in real time.
Democrats destroy their cities with radical policies, then export voters to red states who keep voting for the same failed ideas.
DeSantis isn't actually building a border wall or imposing tariffs on New York transplants.
But his trolling hit a nerve because it speaks to a very real concern about political migration patterns that are reshaping American politics.
Florida Republicans aren't the only ones who noticed what happened Tuesday night beyond New York City.
Democrats won major races across the East Coast because, as DeSantis explained, the voters who would have stopped them are now registered Republicans in Florida.
The Sunshine State's dramatic voter registration shift didn't happen by accident — it happened because Republicans fled blue states that became unlivable under Democrat control.
¹ "Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City Mayor Election," Breitbart, November 4, 2025.
² "2025 New York City mayoral election," Wikipedia, November 7, 2025.
³ "NYC election results: See how New York City voted in the mayoral race," ABC7 New York, November 7, 2025.
⁴ "Gov. DeSantis Asks If Florida Should Impose Tariffs on Fleeing New Yorkers or Build a Wall," Breitbart, November 5, 2025.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ "'Build a FL border wall': DeSantis mocks Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral win," Orlando Weekly, November 6, 2025.
⁷ – ¹⁰ Ibid.
¹¹ "DeSantis: Mamdani's win as mayor will push New Yorkers to Florida," WTSP, November 5, 2025.
¹² "DeSantis blasts NYC's 'ballistic podiatry' after Zohran Mamdani wins mayor's race and Florida expects exodus," Fox News, November 6, 2025.
¹³ Ibid.
¹⁴ Ibid.
¹⁵ "DeSantis: Mamdani's win as mayor will push New Yorkers to Florida," WTSP, November 5, 2025.
¹⁶ Ibid.
¹⁷ Ibid.
¹⁸ Ibid.
¹⁹ "DeSantis blasts NYC's 'ballistic podiatry' after Zohran Mamdani wins mayor's race and Florida expects exodus," Fox News, November 6, 2025.
²⁰ "DeSantis: Mamdani's win as mayor will push New Yorkers to Florida," WTSP, November 5, 2025.
²¹ "Wall Street reckons with life under Zohran Mamdani," NPR, November 6, 2025.
²² "Ron DeSantis says Florida migration helped get the left elected in New York, New Jersey," Florida Politics, November 5, 2025.
²³ "2025 Election live updates and results: Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race, N.J. elects Mikie Sherrill and Calif. votes on Prop. 50," Yahoo News, November 5, 2025.
²⁴ "How Florida reacted to Democrats' big election night," Yahoo News, November 7, 2025.
²⁵ Ibid.
²⁶ Ibid.
²⁷ "2025 New York City mayoral election," Wikipedia, November 7, 2025.
²⁸ Ibid.
