Kelly Hayes
Miami Sen. Annette Taddeo, the Democratic nominee for Florida’s 27th Congressional District, was questioned Saturday morning on how she plans to reach Hispanic voters as they increasingly shift right.
In an interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez, Taddeo emphasized her ability to relate to Hispanic voters in the district, saying she pushes back with her life experiences. Taddeo fled Colombia as a teenager after her father was kidnapped by a Marxist terrorist group funded by the Cuban regime.
“I won twice in a state that voted for Trump by six points, because I push back on my personal story,” she said. “This is what we need to do fight back — talk about our personal stories, talk about what we are going to do and what we have done for hardworking people, and how we are truly the ones that are defending democracy in the United States and overseas. And that is how we are going to win this.”
CD 27 is a majority Hispanic district, accounting for 74% of the voting age population — that’s the highest percentage in the state.
While speaking to Sanchez, Taddeo stressed that democracy will be on the ballot this November, combatting GOP rhetoric of Democrats as “socialists” and “communists.”
“They don’t want to talk about the freedoms that we are losing and that they want us to go backwards as a country but more importantly, this election is about so much more. This election is about democracy. This election is about democracy right here in the United States of America,” she said.
Taddeo also said that “freedom” will be on the ballot this November, referencing abortion rights.
“I can tell you that freedom is on the ballot, freedom of choice, freedom to travel to another state to have medical procedures. These are the reasons many of us have fled rom other countries, and that’s what we’re fighting for,” she said.
Taddeo will face incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar for what is expected to be one of the most competitive races this election cycle. In 2020, 49..76% of the district voted for former President Donald Trump, while 49.49% of the the district voted for President Joe Biden.
7 comments
Charlie Crist
August 27, 2022 at 11:58 am
Send Cuban fascists back on a neo nazi banana boat. Say, “here…you complaining about communism this what you get… cheers.”
Impeach Biden
August 27, 2022 at 12:50 pm
Cubans aren’t dumb like the Corsin / Often / Crist cast of misfits. They do not want to turn the US into Cuba and Venezuela like many of your leftist Democrat politicians.
Charlie Crist
August 27, 2022 at 1:28 pm
You are talking about failed socialist states. There are more successful socialist models such as ones in Scandinavia and even Germany has modern semi socialist system/ social market economy. As Latin American socialist systems can fail… American Capitalism can also produce terrible results thus be considered a failure especially in the long run. Let’s see how long we can shovel money to the rich before everyone is miserable buddy! Great idea!
Joe Corsen
August 27, 2022 at 2:02 pm
@Impeach Biden: You know very little about what you are talking about. Brain has been obliterated by the far right. Seek help .. you’ve been abused.
Tom
August 27, 2022 at 2:23 pm
Interesting, Democracy is on ballot?
So, only if tarantula wins, means we have democracy? How crazy is that.
That’s one party rule. Sounds as if only she does. Really ignorant.
Charlie Crist
August 27, 2022 at 3:00 pm
^ Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard someone say in my entire life…
Tom
August 27, 2022 at 6:31 pm
Yeah cause I called you and your B S corsin, quote of, “democracy” on ballot.
Yeah your Dum code word, only if the Dum wins. Spare us moron, you ignant scurrilous menace. Legend always wins.
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