SIDE SLOW ON THE TRANSFER FROM
THE DON SHULA EXPRESSWAY.
THAT'S LOOK AT TRAFFIC, BACK TO
YOU.
2020, YEAR TO REMEMBER.
BEGINNING TODAY AND CONTINUING
INTO WE USHER IN A NEW YEAR,
LOOKING BACK AT THE YEAR THAT
WAS.
THE STORIES THAT SHE 2020.
POLITICAL STORIES WERE HUGE AND
2020, OVERSHADOWED ONLY BY THE
CORONAVIRUS.
HERE IS JIM DEFEDE WITH SOME OF
THE HIGHLIGHTS .
Reporter: HEADACHES, NAUSEA,
AND OVERALL FEELING OF
EXHAUSTION.
CERTAINLY SYMPTOMS OF THE
CORONAVIRUS. THEY ALSO
REPRESENT HOW AMERICANS FEEL
ABOUT THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS.
2020 HAS BEEN A YEAR LIKE NONE
OTHER IN THE SAME WENT FOR
POLITICS.
WE DID IT JOE.
YOU WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES.
Reporter: JOE BIDEN WAS
INDEED ELECTED PRESIDENT, AS
MORE THAN 81 MILLION AMERICANS
CAST BALLOTS FOR HIM.
BEATING DONALD TRUMP BY MORE
THAN 7 MILLION VOTES.
MORE IMPORTANTLY, BIDEN
GARNERED 306 ELECTORAL VOTES.
TRUMP, HOWEVER STEADFASTLY
REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE REALITY,
CLAIMING FRAUD WITHOUT PROOF.
THEY KNOW IT WAS A FIXED
ELECTION, A RIGGED ELECTION AND
THEY KNOW.
YOU KNOW WE WON GEORGIA,
JUST SO YOU UNDERSTAND
IT WAS A RIGGED ELECTION,
YOU LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT
STATES, THE ELECTION WAS
TOTALLY WRECKED.
Reporter: WHILE THE BIZARRE
AND FUNNY MOMENTS, AND EVEN
OTTER CAST OF CHARACTERS
WE ARE IN SEANA POLAKOFF BY
30,000 VOTES, THAT IS IN THE
CASE
WHAT DID YOU DO, TAKE IT IN
DO SOMETHING CRAZY TO IT?
Reporter: THERE IS NOTHING
FUNNY ABOUT THE POTENTIAL
DAMAGE DONE BY UNDERMINING
FAITH IN THE ELECTION SYSTEM.
A POINT BIDEN MADE WHEN HE WAS
ASKED WHAT PEOPLE ARE
WITNESSING IN TRUMP'S ACTIONS
I THINK THEY ARE WITNESSING
INCREDIBLE IRRESPONSIBILITY,
INCREDIBLY DAMAGING MESSAGES
SENT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD
BY HOW DEMOCRACY FUNCTIONS.
I THINK IT IS TOTALLY
IRRESPONSIBLE
YET WHILE TRUMP LOST, HIS
IMPACT SHALL REMAIN.
ESPECIALLY IN FLORIDA.
WHERE HE WILL HUNKER DOWN AND
MAR A LAGO AND PONDER HIS
RETURN.
HE NOT ONLY ONE THE STATE
DECISIVELY BUT HELP TO FOSTER A
TRUMP WAVE SOUTH FLORIDA.
THAT SWEPT OUT TWO DEMOCRATIC
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
IN THEIR PLACE, FORMER MIAMI-
DADE COUNTY MAYOR CARLOS
GIMENEZ AND FORMER TV
JOURNALIST MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR
TODAY WAS A REJECTION OF
EXTREMISM, TODAY WAS A
REJECTION OF PARTISANSHIP.
TODAY WAS A REJECTION OF
SOCIALISM, AND THE EVILS OF
SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM AND
THAT'S NOT JUST RHETORIC, IT'S
TROOPER
I'M HONORED TO OFFICIALLY
ACCEPT THE POSITION AS YOUR
CONGRESSWOMAN FOR DISTRICT
NUMBER 27.
Reporter: REPUBLICANS HAD
ACCORDED MIAMI-DADE COUNTY BY
FALSELY BURNING ALL DEMOCRATS
AS SOCIALISTS.
IT CANNOT BE UNDERESTIMATED HOW
EFFECTIVE THIS STRATEGY WAS.
OR HOW MUCH SOUTH FLORIDA SWUNG
TOWARDS TRUMP, IN HIS STYLE OF
POLITICS.
WILL GIMENEZ MOVES ON TO
WASHINGTON, MIAMI-DADE HAS A
NEW MAYOR, THE FIRST WOMAN TO
HOLD THE POSITION.
BROWARD ALSO SAW HISTORIC
ELECTION RESULTS AS VOTERS
ELECTED THE FIRST AFRICAN-
AMERICAN PUBLIC DEFENDER, IN
THE FIRST STATE ATTORNEY.
I THINK THIS RACE, THIS
ELECTION, THIS PAST ELECTION,
THE VOTERS MADE IT CLEAR. THE
STATUS QUO OF HOW THE STATE
ATTORNEY'S OFFICES WERE RUN IN
THE DEFENDER'S OFFICE WAS RUN,
OR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE
TWO ENTITIES, THEY MADE IT
CLEAR THEY WANT SOMETHING
DIFFERENT.
THEY WANT CRIMINAL JUSTICE
REFORM.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TALK,
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A
VERY CANDID AND OPEN DIALOGUE.
AND MOVE TOWARDS A SYSTEM THAT
IS BASED ON EQUITY, FAIRNESS
AND JUSTICE.
Reporter: IN A RACE THAT HAD
MORE TWISTS AND TURNS THAN A
HIGH ASCENT NOVEL, GREGORY TONY
ELECTED SHERIFF OF BROWARD,
EVEN AFTER IT WAS REVEALED HE
KILLED A MAN IN SELF-DEFENSE
WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER.
IN ONE OF THE CLOSEST ELECTIONS
OF THE HISTORY OF THE STATE
SENATE, DEMOCRAT JOSI RODRIGUEZ
, LOST HIS SEAT TO ILIANA
GARCIA, THE FOUNDER OF LATINOS
FOR TRUMP.
RECOUNT SHOWED SHE ONE BY 44
VOTES, OUT OF MORE THAN 215,000
CAST.
FLORIDA VOTERS ALSO PASSED A
STATEWIDE CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT TO RAISE THE MINIMUM
WAGE OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS TO