Posted on 10/24/2022 1:25:00 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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.'"
There are a lot of legal immigrants from Cuba and Venezuela…
I think the mayor of Miami is Cuban….the city has low unemployment and a huge number of business startups…
And Venezolanos and Colombianos.
All things considered, Miami is doing well economically
or... this will be one of the first elections where the cheating is getting (partially) curtailed.
Mostly, but not entirely, with the emergence of new issues also a factor. Democrat wokeism cuts against the pro-family cuture and clear sex roles that are a defining aspect of Latin culture. In addition, inflation has eroded living standards while the pro-Black racism of Critical Race Theory has aggravated Black versus Hispanic tensions. And the flood of illegals has amped up crime and depressed blue collar wages. In short, Biden and the Dems have given Hispanics good reason to vote GOP this year.
DeSantis has been out in front on the wokeism/transgenderism battle, and that really appeals to socially conservative Latinos.
Miami-Dade has always had problems with Election Day voting problems, count delays, etc. Miami-Dade was one of the counties that Al Gore went to court over in 2000, to get the Florida Supreme Court to allow a recount of the various chad versions on the punch cards used that year.
“cause for concern” “democrats concerned”
How about, cause for rejoicing!
STIPULATION FOR SETTLEMENT AS TO PENELOPE
TOWNSLEY, SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
https://miamiherald.typepad.com/files/dade.pdf
The voting irregularities were settled and Townsley retired.
That was like a +7 D county for Biden in 2020. That’s a huge swing in such a large county.
Look at the 2000 election posts for interesting, as it happens, news that has gone down the memory hole.
The last time a Republican governor won Miami-Dade County was Jeb(!) Bush in 2002
Please clap.
“Cuba and Venezuela”
Nobody cherishes freedom more than people who escaped communist hellholes or people whose parents escaped communist hellholes. They do not like that the Dems have morphed into the Revolutionary Communist Democrat Party.
It should be no surprise. The mayor of Miami is a Republican.
This can overcome the reluctance of local police to punish election fraud which benefits those who control local police benefits and paychecks.
My latino friends are entirely fed up with Marxist communist Democrats - and they despise the Democrats “Latinx” label. That label alone helped the Latinos realize that they are taken for granted and that their values: faith and family - are despised by the leftists.
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