{"id":1420285,"date":"2022-04-05T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420285"},"modified":"2022-04-05T14:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:45:27","slug":"wrought-with-entitlement-florida-dems-forced-back-to-the-drawing-board-over-cratering-latino-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wrought-with-entitlement-florida-dems-forced-back-to-the-drawing-board-over-cratering-latino-support\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wrought With Entitlement\u2019: Florida Dems Forced Back To The Drawing Board Over Cratering Latino Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwrought-with-entitlement-florida-dems-forced-back-to-the-drawing-board-over-cratering-latino-support%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420285&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrats in Florida are admitting they may have to reconsider their approach to stop the GOP\u2019s acquisition of Latino voters in the state, Politico reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz, a Cuban American former mayor of Miami, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/04\/04\/florida-democrats-latino-voters-00022601?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0b34fe84-ed71-4a96-9b4b-77a80cb8363b&#038;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz said the party needed to focus on \u201cbroader pocketbook\u201d issues like the economy and health care in order to fix its <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/07\/florida-democrats-hispanics-americano-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">problem with the Latino community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy, education, health care \u2014 those are things that the Democratic Party has focused on in the past year,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t need to focus on these useless culture wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d veteran Democratic consultant Christian Ulvert told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have attempted to forge closer connections to the Latino community earlier in the election cycle after President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/03\/biden-trump-hispanic-voters-florida-ohio-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">underperformance<\/a> with the demographic in the 2020 presidential election, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7404369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7404369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikki Fried, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and a Democratic candidate for 2022 Florida gubernatorial race, arrives for a ceremony with U.S. President Joe Biden as he welcomes the 2021 NFL Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the South Lawn of the White House on July 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is also running for governor, brought on longtime Democratic consultant and Spanish language \u201cdisinformation\u201d expert Evelyn P\u00e9rez-Verd\u00eda early in her campaign, Politico reported. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/democrats-elections-2020-hispanics-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018They Don\u2019t Buy Into That At All\u2019: Are Far-Left Policies Behind Hispanic Voters\u2019 Rightward Shift?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Guillermo Grenier, a sociology professor at Florida International University who helps lead the university\u2019s opinion polls on South Florida\u2019s Cuban American population, told Politico he had yet to see any urgency from the Democratic party to reverse <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/joe-biden-mike-garcia-nicole-malliotakis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GOP gains<\/a> and accused them of being \u201cwrought with entitlement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want someone who says, \u2018I\u2019ve got the balls to fight for you.\u2019 That\u2019s basically all Trump did, and it worked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need to start now,\u201d Grenier added. \u201cThe Trump organization was paying canvassers $20 an hour to go door-to-door months before the election, a year before the election. That\u2019s a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats in Florida are admitting they may have to reconsider their approach to stop the GOP\u2019s acquisition of Latino voters in the state, Politico reported Monday.\u201cThe party overall, there is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}