Posted on 10/23/2022 5:42:11 AM PDT by TigerClaws
MIAMI — Florida Democrats are fretting over Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ popularity among Latinos, saying they are boosting his chances of becoming the first Republican governor in 20 years to win traditionally blue Miami-Dade County and therefore propelling his chances of a successful presidential run in 2024.
Miami-Dade, the state's most populous county, is 70% Hispanic. The last time a Republican governor won Miami-Dade County was Jeb Bush in 2002. Unlike DeSantis, Bush held press conferences in fluent Spanish and his wife is Mexican-born.
DeSantis is an “outlier” among Republican governors, said Fernand Amandi, a Democratic consultant and pollster in Miami.
“DeSantis overperforms here in a way that you don’t tend to see Republican candidates perform elsewhere with Hispanics,” he said.
Cause for concern
DeSantis has raised over $100 million for his re-election campaign, a staggering number for any gubernatorial candidate. Many of the donors are eyeing DeSantis as a potential 2024 presidential candidate.
The governor is being challenged by former Democratic congressman — and previous Republican governor —Charlie Crist, who is behind in the polls.
Faced with this, Florida Democrats have expressed frustration and anger over their limited resources and money from national donor groups. Some feel that Democrats have ceded Florida to Republicans after their defeat in the 2020 election.
“If Ron DeSantis wins the Latino vote in Florida, which has been a GOP project now for the past decade," said Democrat Devon Murphy Anderson, co-founder of the voter registration organization Mi Vecino, "Ron DeSantis is going to go directly to his donors and say, 'I can win the presidential nomination and I can beat the Democratic nominee in 2024 because I can win the Latino vote.'"
Hillary Clinton won Miami-Dade County by almost 30 points in 2016, but Biden won the county by only 7 points.
When Clinton won, "Republicans looked at that and instead of throwing their hands up, walking away from the county, and saying this is always going to be a blue base, they doubled down in their investment there," said Murphy Anderson.
One lib on Twitter said this was “identifying with the oppressor.”
Dear God, let it be so!
Off topic but about my supergovernor......a judge shot down a lawsuit seeking to stop the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act which ensures school kids aren’t exposed to homosexual literature etc.
The man is a winner all the way around.
“One lib on Twitter said this was “identifying with the oppressor.””
Libs really do not get the irony of their statements.
Marco Rubio says this in one of his ads: 'My parents came to America after the Left destroyed their country. I'm not letting the left destroy America.'
On Rubio, I’ve seen a lot of politicians come and go in this state and at one time I had very high hopes for that young man......unfortunately I’ve been more than a bit disappointed in him.
OH!!! How much can be learned from this. The eeyore surrender monkey caucus would never have it though. They'd rather say "IZ ALL RIGZ" "IZ NOTTA VOTING NO MOARH!!!!" "WES AT DA LAST BOX!!!"
I was very favorable toward DeSantis until a few months ago when he started hanging out with some very unsavory RINOs. Don’t get swept off your feet by the man.
Get rid of the RINOs then. Problem solved.
Watching the local Miami media is hilarious. They uniformly HATE the governor, so they are very very careful about attacking him.
Most of the time the leftists in “journalism” in Miami (and they are legion) will IGNORE DeSantis.
If they report on him, it is almost always a backhanded bash—and they try to disguise it by using weasel words like “The Washington Post says...”
But the Miami media hates DeSantis.
Hispanics >> Cubans
Cubans put DeSantis in office
Cubans kept Gore out of Presidency
“I was very favorable toward DeSantis until a few months ago when he started hanging out with some very unsavory RINOs. Don’t get swept off your feet by the man.”
Says the dude from NK that knows nothing about Florida.
“I was very favorable toward DeSantis until a few months ago when he started hanging out with some very unsavory RINOs”
Facts, please.
“I was very favorable toward DeSantis until a few months ago when he started hanging out with some very unsavory RINOs. “
How much did ActBlue pay you?
“But the Miami media hates DeSantis.”
Actually they hate all republicans!
Miami Dade has been shifting. But ghettos like opa laka, liberty city and Miami Beach are still RAT.
Correcto
Them hating us is a good thing...
If we only had some TV interviewers to get 10 Hispanics to say they are voting for Republicans and so are everyone they know, that WALL would be built in RECORD time with record DEPORTATIONS!!
LOL. And he still was absolutely humiliated in the 2016 primaries.
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