Emily Gregory’s victory brought the Democratic surge to President Trump’s backyard, Palm Beach, just weeks after her party won the mayor’s race in Boca Raton, 30 miles south.

The party's run of success in special elections across the country over the past year continues even in Republican dominated Florida.

Donald Trump, who has blasted mail-in ballots as "cheating," cast his vote by mail in a Tuesday special election in Florida in which ​a Democrat won the district in the state legislature that includes the president's ‌Mar-a-Lago resort.

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The country's most famous Republican, President Donald Trump, will be represented by a Democrat in the Florida House of Representatives. Democrat Emily Gregory defeated Republican Jon Maples in the House District 87 race,

President Trump previously made headlines for offering an endorsement in the local race (Reuters) Democrats on Tuesday won a special election for a statehouse seat in a district that includes President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.