Exclusive: Republicans seeking re-election in a race key to the party’s Senate majority made a major announcement Friday aimed at shifting key voting blocs away from Democrats.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott has released his latest ad that will spend millions of dollars to help Hispanics. His campaign hopes to continue the demographic shift toward Republicans and solidify the state as an even redder state.
“As parents, we teach our children values, right and wrong, truth and lies. But then we send them to schools with radical socialist teachers who won’t teach them math or English. No, they’re being taught that men can have children and become women, and that they should worship the God of government rather than the God who created us, and that’s socialism. Scott said in the ad, titled “Verdad,” which runs in both Spanish and English. .
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The ad will air in multiple television and radio markets across Florida, as well as on multiple digital platforms across the state.
Socialism has been a dominant theme in Florida elections in recent years, especially given that the state’s Hispanic population is heavily of Cuban and Venezuelan ancestry.
Some election experts argue that this is one of the main factors in the shift of Hispanics to the Republican Party, which is also expanding to other Hispanic groups, such as the Puerto Rican community.
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio questions Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the State Department’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposal at the Dirksen Senate Building on Wednesday, March. 22, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
According to the American Society/Council of America, 55% of Hispanics in Florida support Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for re-election in 2022, and traditionally Hillary Clinton has a 29-point lead. Miami-Dade County, a Democratic stronghold that won in 2017, also supported him. In 2016.
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Scott, who is seeking victory in the Aug. 20 Republican primary, could face Democrat Debbie Mucarsel Powell, a former congresswoman from Florida’s 26th Congressional District who lost the 2020 election. expensive.
Election analysts rate the race as either “likely” or “certain” for the Republican Party.
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