Jason Delgado
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried on Monday suggested that Republican voters in Florida are breaking ranks with President Donald Trump at the polls.
“A Republican ballot doesn’t mean that they’re voting for Trump,” she told MSNBC. “About every three out of four Republican voters that I’ve spoken to and NPAs are voting for Joe Biden.”
Fried’s remarks came in response to a question about the surge of Republican voters turning out during Florida’s in-person early voting period.
Democrats for weeks had reveled in achieving a historic lead over Republicans through vote-by-mail ballots. Now, however, Republicans have begun to turn the tide.
As of Monday morning, Republicans led Democrats in early voting by more than 254,000 votes cast. In all, however, Democrats remain ahead by more than 354,000 votes cast with less than eight days before Election Day.
“So just because those numbers are getting close, we still have a very large vote gain here in the state and I imagine that will continue to increase as we get into Election Day,” Fried explained.
Fried, who is the state’s top elected Democrat, suggested that it is senior, conservative-leaning voters who are tossing the towel on the GOP ticket.
She pointed to Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic among the many reasons they will vote for Biden.
“These individuals haven’t seen their children, their grandchildren,” Fried said. “They’re having to deal with COVID every single day of their lives and don’t have leadership that is taking their health and their safety as a priority.”
Florida is widely considered a must-win swing state for Trump and will remain a battleground through Election Day.
Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday will travel to Orlando in support of Biden and Kamala Harris.
There, he is expected to “encourage Floridians to make a plan to vote early,” a news release said.
Early voting ends Nov. 1 in Florida.
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John
October 27, 2020 at 8:20 am
“About every three out of four Republican voters that I’ve spoken to and NPAs are voting for Joe Biden.”
You are supposed to regulate, not smoke the weed Nikki!
LINDIESUE
October 27, 2020 at 1:55 pm
The therapeutic Trump was given when at Walter Reed did not exist prior to COVID. It exists as a result of the President’s efforts to expedite (Operation Warp Speed) therapeutics, vaccines, ventilators, masks, tests and on (there were none as a result of the Obama/Biden Administration who let the stockpile dwindle.) Under Obama/Biden, over 60,000,000 Americans were infected with H1N1. Per Biden’s Chief of Staff: The snafu was the first of many scrambles and setbacks by the Obama administration in its initial response to the swine flu. POLITICO interviewed almost two dozen people, including administration officials, members of Congress and outsiders who contended with the administration’s response, and they described a litany of sadly familiar obstacles: vaccine shortfalls, fights over funding and sometimes contradictory messaging.”
“It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history,” Ron Klain, who was Biden’s chief of staff at the time, said of H1N1 in 2019. “It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It just had to do with luck.”
The same therapeutic that helped Trump he is now working on expediting its availability to the public.
In his February 4th State of the Union address, President Trump pledged to “take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from the virus.” Nancy Pelosi then ripped up the Address in front of the world. The President: Took early action to cut off travel from China and eventually Europe, which saved millions of lives; Built the world’s leading testing system from nothing (more than 65 million); Enacted mitigation measures to slow the spread; Mobilized public and private sectors to secure needed supplies; Took action to protect vulnerable Americans; Launched effort to deliver a vaccine and therapeutics in record time; Provided support to workers and businesses; Paved way for reopening to get America working again; Surged resources to hot spots as they arose.
In order to secure the supplies (PPE/ Masks/ventilators/handsanitizer/testing supplies urging private companies to produce them) needed to confront the surge in coronavirus we faced, President Trump led the largest mobilization of public and private sector resources since WWII.President Trump has acted under the Defense Production Act more than 30 times to ensure we have the supplies we need. When we faced a potentially catastrophic shortage of ventilators, President Trump took action to produce 100,000 ventilators and ensure no patient who needs one goes without a ventilator. President Trump moved swiftly to protect vulnerable communities.The Administration is investing approximately $2 billion in community health centers, helping their 28 million patients in medically underserved areas receive the care and testing they need.
Early in the fight against the virus, President Trump launched a historic effort to develop a vaccine and therapeutics in record time.
President Trump responded to the devastating toll the virus took on our businesses and workers and secured unprecedented financial support – through PPP, stimulus payments, tax relief to workers, unemployment benefits, student debt relief, prevented evictions or foreclosure.The President has provided support to states facing new emergences of the virus, including surging testing sites, deploying medical personnel, and advising on mitigation strategies.
Marconi
October 27, 2020 at 3:21 pm
this broad is on drugs….she was elected to over agriculture..go inspect some farms and shut up already
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