Posted on 11/17/2020 6:56:19 AM PST by Libloather
“It was a McCarthyism type of pounding,” said Congresswoman Donna Shalala, looking back on the election she narrowly lost this month. Shalala had spent eight years serving in the Cabinet of Bill Clinton, the paragon of Democratic moderates, but by the end of her reelection campaign, she told Intelligencer, people were coming up to her and saying, “You’re a communist.”
“It was nasty, I’ve been in politics for a long time, this was vicious,” she said, as it was for a number of other Democrats in south Florida who lost their seats in races up and down the ticket in Miami-Dade County as it shifted over 20 points toward Trump. Hillary Clinton won the county by almost 300,000 votes in 2016, Joe Biden won it by only 85,000 - which made winning the state’s 29 electoral votes all but impossible for him. By the end of Election Night, Florida had been called for Donald Trump and the traditionally swing state was starting to look red.
The dramatic and unexpected shift in Miami-Dade was concentrated among Hispanics, who make up 71 percent of the county’s population. According to over a half dozen current and former Democratic and Republican elected officials and operatives who spoke to Intelligencer, the biggest factor in the swing toward Republicans was that these voters had a negative response to the Democratic Party’s shift to the left nationally and the rise of self-described democratic socialists such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In south Florida, many Hispanics are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from countries with left-wing dictators, fleeing countries like the Cuba of the Castros and the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. “Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, and Nicaragua are local issues [in south Florida] and these are things people follow and talk about every day,”...
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Shalala isn't a commie? C'mon man.
Shalala is an example of the depth of depravity to which a liberal sinks.
In addition, she’s an ignorant slut.
“McCarthyism”
waaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Red diaper dopes who still refuse to acknowledge they were working pawns of the KGB.
Even if she wants to say she’s not a communist, her political party has lurched leftward. She’s hanging out with socialist types in Washington, even if she herself doesn’t want to say she’s socialist/communist.
It’s a cliche, but, her first vote in every session of Congress is to elect Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. It all flows from there.
Thank god I live in a free state. I really feel for people who don’t live in a state like Florida or Texas.
A Dem being called a commie is ‘nasty’ and ‘vicious’, but calling Trump Hitler is OK?
Yet Biden beat Miami-Dade County by 5%. Yeah right.
Sleep with commie dogs, Shalala, and you will get commie fleas.
Yet Biden beat Trump in Miami-Dade County by 5%. Yeah right.
I was shy some verbiage. 8>)
Those people in Florida calling her a communist have lived at the the tip of the spear in the countries they came from. If anyone would know a true communist, it’s them.
They sure don’t like it when their words come back at them.
... In south Florida, many Hispanics are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from countries with left-wing dictators, fleeing countries like the Cuba of the Castros and the Venezuela of Hugo Chevez and Nicolás Maduro. â Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, and Nicaragua are local issues [in south Florida]
Ummm, Florida Hispanics aren't worried about "left-wing dictators" - they're worried about commie thugs.
Ben Jacobs is lying or he's stupid or he's trying to tell white liberal 'elites' what they want to hear.
All this means is in two years democrats will have to include Miami Dade in their voter fraud operations.
A Democrat “moderate” is just someone who thinks they need to leisurely stroll towards Communism instead of sprinting.
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