Florida, the state of official residence of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), opened the polls this Tuesday morning for a Republican Party primary without any significance in the presidential elections and in the midst of the already aggressive national campaign between the Republican and the current president, the Democrat Joe Biden.
In this Republican primary without contenders, the so-called ‘Sunshine State’ offers 125 delegates that will foreseeably add to Trump’s tally, who has already secured more than the 1,215 he needed before the Republican National Convention in July to make his candidacy official.
The campaign in Florida, as in the rest of the country, including Arizona, Louisiana, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio, which also have primaries this Tuesday, is already national and with immigration as the recurring topic of an aggressive debate.
“I think what we have seen is a trump who ran in the primary as an incumbent, basically winning all the races“Republican strategist Alfonso Aguilar told EFE.
He stressed that if we look at the attacks of trump and those of Bidenit has been clear since last February that the world has its eyes on the rematch between the two next November.
For Aguilar, the Florida primaries will mobilize people to make clear their support for Trump, to “demonstrate that the conservative Republican base is solidly behind him” despite the four criminal charges he faces.
“It is more of a primary of enthusiasm“, Aguilar emphasized about these elections.
Although the campaign trump He has not announced whether the former president will have public events in Florida, he will probably vote in Palm Beach, in the southwest of the state.
There he owns the ‘Mar-a-Lago’ club, which has been his main residence since Manhattan ceased to be one and which became a kind of winter White House during his presidency.
DeSantis out
In addition to trumpthe ballot in Florida includes six other candidates already withdrawn from the race – such as Governor Ron DeSantis – since by law only those who officially did so until December 12 can be deleted.
Trump’s political godson has remained somewhat on the sidelines of the former president’s campaign, although he offered his support when he retired last January.
The governor, however, has intensified the use of social networks these days to continue denouncing illegal immigration and criticizing President Biden, as Trump does at all his rallies.
Political scientist Eduardo Gamarra, professor at Florida International University (FIU, in English), recalled that the issue of migration was what projected DeSantis nationally and “where many people think that he has a great future”, perhaps by 2028.
Regarding the failure of the Republican, Gamarra told EFE that in addition to the mismanagement of campaign funds, by “investing where he should not have invested,” it was especially due to trump.
“Their main problem was Trump. He thought he was going to be his heir, but Trump wasn’t dead”Gamarra said.
Meanwhile, on the Democratic side there will be no primaries in Florida.
The state Democratic Party included only President Biden’s name on the primary ballot and thus canceled its primaries.
President Biden will offer campaign rallies this Tuesday in the key states of Nevada and Arizona, as part of an aggressive initiative to revitalize parts of his 2020 electoral coalition made up of minorities, including African-Americans and Hispanics.
With this panorama, the primaries in Florida will gain some importance to define local candidates who could influence the composition of the majorities in both chambers of Congress in Washington in the November elections.
Likewise, the Hispanic vote will be measured, which continues to grow in the country.
Last October, more than 2.4 million Hispanics were registered to vote in Florida, representing 18% of all registered voters, according to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO).
The organization notes that Florida’s population is one of the most diverse in the country; It is home to the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the continental territory, as well as Cubans, Colombians, Peruvians and Venezuelans.
“The Hispanic electorate in Florida has grown significantly and more than 21% of voting-age citizens in that state are Hispanic”said Arturo Vargas, president of NALEO.
Source: Gestion
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