Political analyst and USF Professor Emerita Susan MacManus says the party also put too much emphasis on issues that didn't resonate with many Floridians.

The Republican supermajority returning to Tallahassee largely voted for Florida’s current six-week ban on most abortions. Only a handful of Republicans in office endorsed recreational marijuana.

Florida’s voters were asked whether the state’s constitution should say that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”