Martha Casamayor, heart, says Joe Biden “stabbed Cuban Individuals within the again” and regrets voting for him. South Florida Latinos like her are key to Republicans increasing their political attain in future elections.
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Martha Casamayor, heart, says Joe Biden “stabbed Cuban Individuals within the again” and regrets voting for him. South Florida Latinos like her are key to Republicans increasing their political attain in future elections.
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Republicans didn’t see the crimson wave they had been betting on throughout final 12 months’s midterms, so now they’re setting their sights on increasing success tales that did break via, corresponding to the large features they made in South Florida.
The largely conservative Latino neighborhood in Miami-Dade County turned crimson final 12 months for the primary time in 20 years.
Who’re they? The Latino neighborhood in South Florida is essentially conservative, and contains immigrants from Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela and different Latin American international locations.
What is the massive deal? South Florida marks a neighborhood the place politics seemingly by no means sleeps. And it is also the place the political floor sport for 2024 is already underway.
- Kevin Cooper, vice chairman of the Republican Occasion of Miami-Dade County says he is gotten calls from Republican Election Committees and different GOP teams in Texas and past hoping to copy the South Florida mannequin.
- Florida Worldwide College politics professor Eduardo Gamarra says an early, relentless floor sport by Republicans helped flip the Miami-Dade area crimson. Gamarra says Democrats arrange their floor sport too late and handled Latino voters there like a monolith, doubtlessly costing them a era of voters.
- Former Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell says depressed voter turnout, tradition battle points and Republican disinformation performed a key function final 12 months. She additionally concedes her get together has deserted the state.
- Voters like Martha Casamayor, a 73-year-old Cuban American, says President Joe Biden, his administration and Democrats have betrayed voters like her. Casamayor says they have not utilized sufficient stress on the Cuban communist regime and issued proposals to develop commerce with the nation.
Wish to study extra? Hearken to the NPR Politics podcast episode on how Latino GOP voters have embraced the tradition battle.
What are folks saying?
Casamayor on Democrats:
(Biden) stabbed Cuban Individuals within the again … The Biden administration has betrayed the Cuban Individuals … He has betrayed the Cuban Individuals who voted for him.
Cooper on listening to from totally different Republican Election Committees, or REC, asking concerning the Miami-Dade County mannequin:
We take that message throughout throughout the county and shortly will take it throughout the nation as we clarify to totally different RECs and totally different events the right way to construct their operations.
Mucarsel-Powell on why Democrats should not surrender on Florida:
In the event you care concerning the setting, that you must care about Florida. In the event you care about minority teams, in the event you care about Latinos, that you must care about Florida. And we have been deserted.
Gamarra on Republican successes in South Florida:
Republicans perceive higher the thought of the Latino American dream and Democrats nonetheless, for essentially the most half, strategy Latinos as a part of the civil rights wrestle in america.
So, what now?
- It will likely be a key space to look at within the run as much as the 2024 presidential election.
- Republicans are working to carry onto and develop on their midterm wins in South Florida, whereas Democrats are a protracted highway again to attempt to rebuild their Florida operations.
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