Sebastian Hughes, DCNF
Democrats in Florida are admitting they may have to reconsider their approach to stop the GOP’s acquisition of Latino voters in the state, Politico reported Monday.
“The party overall, there is a lot of attention on Hispanics, but if you look at the numbers across the country, the party in and of itself has lost ground with working class voters in America,” Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz, a Cuban American former mayor of Miami, told Politico.
Diaz said the party needed to focus on “broader pocketbook” issues like the economy and health care in order to fix its problem with the Latino community.
“The economy, education, health care — those are things that the Democratic Party has focused on in the past year,” he said. “We don’t need to focus on these useless culture wars.”
“We need to be in more agreement that Hispanic voters in Florida are a universe of voters that are persuadable that Republicans can win, not [Democratic] base voters,” veteran Democratic consultant Christian Ulvert told Politico.
Democrats have attempted to forge closer connections to the Latino community earlier in the election cycle after President Joe Biden’s underperformance with the demographic in the 2020 presidential election, Politico reported.
Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist, who is campaigning for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, traveled to Puerto Rico for three days in March, meeting with key officials and community members, Politico reported. Fellow Democratic candidate State Sen. Annette Taddeo has a trip set for May.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is also running for governor, brought on longtime Democratic consultant and Spanish language “disinformation” expert Evelyn Pérez-Verdía early in her campaign, Politico reported.
However, Guillermo Grenier, a sociology professor at Florida International University who helps lead the university’s opinion polls on South Florida’s Cuban American population, told Politico he had yet to see any urgency from the Democratic party to reverse GOP gains and accused them of being “wrought with entitlement.”
“They want someone who says, ‘I’ve got the balls to fight for you.’ That’s basically all Trump did, and it worked,” he said.
“People need to start now,” Grenier added. “The Trump organization was paying canvassers $20 an hour to go door-to-door months before the election, a year before the election. That’s a lot of money.”
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“The economy, education, health care — those are things that the Democratic Party has focused on in the past year,” he said. “We don’t need to focus on these useless culture wars.” The Democrats becoming more like the Republicans will not help them this term.
The Dems are FOCKED in November and they KNOW IT !
We’re assuming they won’t at least try to cheat again. But with how their arrogance and lying are finally catching up to them, maybe they realize they couldn’t do it again?
So now we have to cater to them and give them special favors to vote gop? Forget that. If someone chooses to vote communist because the GOP didn’t cater to them then screw them.
I don’t see that in the article.
Is America fed-up with politicians working for themselves rather than the American people? I am!
Because the leftists don’t hold power & their Inability to buy votes with more & more offers of Welfare & endless social freebies, the Scamdemocrats are frizzled.