‘We’ve got to stop the bleeding’: Democrats sound alarm in Miami

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President Trump is looking very good in Florida. Joe Biden’s lead is only around 115,000 votes through mail-in ballots. That is not good enough for Biden to have a chance at winning Florida. Not even close.

Joe Biden is also underperforming in Miami-Dade County in a big way. Consider that President Trump won Florida in 2016, despite losing Miami-Dade by 29 points. Trump will do MUCH better in Miami-Dade on Tuesday, because of his surging support from Latin American (Cuban & Venezuelan) voters.

If Trump’s base in Florida comes out for him, then President Trump will win Florida comfortably.

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‘We’ve got to stop the bleeding’: Democrats sound alarm in Miami

By Politico, October 29, 2020

MIAMI — Democrats are sounding the alarm about weak voter turnout rates in Florida’s biggest county, Miami-Dade, where a strong Republican showing is endangering Joe Biden’s chances in the nation’s biggest swing state.

No Democrat can win Florida without a huge turnout and big winning margins here to offset losses elsewhere in the state. But Democrats are turning out at lower rates than Republicans and at lower rates than at this point in 2016, when Hillary Clinton won by 29 percentage points here and still lost the state to Donald Trump.

One particular area of concern is the relative share of ballots cast by young voters of color and less-reliable Democratic voters. Part of the problem, according to interviews with a dozen Democratic elected officials and operatives, is the Biden campaign‘s decision to discourage field staff from knocking on doors during the pandemic and its subsequent delay in greenlighting — and funding — a return to door-to-door canvassing.

“We did not get the kind of funding for different vendors who would do that type of work until late in the campaign,” said Rep. Frederica Wilson, a party institution who represents Miami’s heavily Black congressional district.

Wilson said the good news is that Biden’s running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, is working with her on a turnout event for this weekend geared toward young Black men. But the veteran congresswoman said there are still skilled operatives in her district who excel at turnout work who have yet to get approved by the campaign, a puzzling delay for an operation that raised a record $363 million the month before.

“I screamed. Hollered. I called. I lobbied from the top to the bottom,” Wilson said of her efforts to get turnout operations started in the community, including sending written proposals to Biden’s campaign and having virtual Zoom meetings with his advisers.

In a sign of the state’s importance, Biden and Trump both campaigned in Florida on Thursday. Biden held an event in Broward County, which is located within the Miami-Fort Lauderdale media market, and then held a rally in Tamp, where Trump held his own event to boost early voting turnout.

Wilson and other Democrats aren’t panicking yet. They take comfort in the fact that huge swaths of Democratic voters cast absentee ballots by mail statewide, and that Biden narrowly leads in most Florida polls, including a Monmouth University likely voter survey released Thursday that put the former vice president up by 6 percentage points. That margin is far bigger than in Democratic internal polls.

Party officials also point out that Black churches are planning “Souls to the Polls” events Sunday that encourage voting after church. However, in the era of coronavirus, church services are virtual and organizing those events is more difficult than in the past election years.

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

I sincerely hope DEMS, hemorrhage to death and gone for forever! If that does happen, they will just regroup and come back. Evil is tenacious. Evil has no boundaries or lows. It will stoop to anything to get its way. People get complacent and it starts all over again. I am also concerned about the brain washed younger generation…They are so dumb and seem to want the globalist utopia garbage. It will prove to be their worst nightmare.

We have to have SCHOOL CHOICE in in preK- 12th grade and major changes and colleges and universities. They are literally teaching Marxism and perversion is great!

Tasmanian Devil
Tasmanian Devil
3 years ago

Democrats DESERVE to be humiliated and beaten into submission. They are traitors in every sense of the word.

Electing people who specialize in fomenting hate, lies, deceit and disaster isn’t something Americans do.

That’s why the Democrat Party has become the party of illegal aliens and BLM, the dregs of the nation.

https://veryracist.com/2020/10/31/how-to-deal-with-blm-and-negros-who-hate-the-police/

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patd
patd
3 years ago

Anyone with a functioning brain cell would vote for the peepads and kneepads…and yet they are still allowed to vote!!!! I see that the libturds really hate having a real American back in our WH after the stench of the POS anti-American muslim!!!!!

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago

“Souls to the Polls?” You’ve got to be kidding me. Only a Democrat leaning church, if you want to call it that, could get away with this with the government. A Republican or Libertarian church would have their tax exempt status threatened. As a born again Christian I am stunned that anyone would take “souls” so lightly. You are called to be salt, as a preservative, and a light of truth shining in a darkened world. I can’t even believe it is possible to be both a genuine Christian and a Democrat. That hasn’t worked for a very long time.

Alexandra
Alexandra
3 years ago

So glad they are going to get their azzez beat in Florida!

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