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Texas Got Beyoncé and Kamala Harris. Florida Got the Clintons.

Florida Democrats head into Election Day without ever landing a visit from the presidential candidate.

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Harris last came to Florida in May as a campaign surrogate for Joe Biden. Paul Sancya/AP

TAMPA, FL — Three days from the presidential election, the most prominent surrogate for Kamala Harris in the state of Florida was the last woman to lose to Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton.

At a sleepy rally in Tampa on Saturday, Clinton delivered a 2016-esque smackdown of Trump. She was, at times, meandering, but she also sounded almost incredulous that she hadn’t woken up yet from the entire Trump era just being a nightmare.

“I hope that when she’s elected, people who have been totally caught up in Trump-mania will be able to exhale,” Clinton told the few-hundred-person crowd. “They can look around and they can kind of think, ‘Oh, OK, that’s over.’”