Uh Oh! Trump Collapses in Florida at Worst Time!!!

Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are getting a rude awakening in Florida and they're looking at the midterms coming up and ain't looking good for Trump and MAGA. Some of the latest polling has Trump's approval in Florida at net negative 7.5% and that's been decreasing by the day. You have the MAGA Republican governor out there, Ron DeSantis commenting about the Texas special elections including the most recent one for state senate district number nine where the Democrat overperformed by plus 31 points and won in a plus 17 Trump district by a plus 14 margin against a Trump endorsed candidate named Lee Wham Gans. Taylor Remmet went on to win that race and Ron DeSantis writes special elections are quirky and not necessarily projectable regarding a general election. That said a swing of this magnitude is not something that can be dismissed. Republicans should be clear-eyed about the political environment heading into the midterms and day by day DeSantis is throwing the Trump regime under the bus even more. That's a story to keep on following. I saw he came out against data centers and a lot of the AI initiatives of the Trump regime recently as well. You take a look recently there was that Miami mayor's race as well and you had Eileen Higgins becoming the first Democrat elected the mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years when Donald Trump the same way he endorsed that MAGA candidate in Texas. He endorsed the mayoral Republican candidate Gonzales in Miami who suffered a massive loss there. You know and that brings us really to Florida's 27th congressional district right here where you have a big race coming up. You have this MAGA Republican candidate Maria Salazar her parents and family fled Cuba and her whole thing was that she was protecting the population from socialism and dictators and then she hoisted up Donald Trump who was a dictator and who does socialism for the billionaires and she's been saying and promising her constituents all along that promise you you know Donald Trump is not going to do immigration raids. He's not going after people who have been here for a long time. He's only going after criminals so the day after the presidential election back up this is by the ways what she's been saying she's been MAGA through and through and so I'll just give you one clip for example the day after the presidential election when she was interviewed by PBS she said I promise you everybody Donald Trump is supporting my dignity act it's called the dignity act because if you've been here and you're hard working and you're an immigrant you have nothing to worry about at all you're good it's only the violent criminals. Trump told me he promised me we're going to get this act passed even if we don't get the act passed he supports it. Watch what she said on PBS the day after the election. I am sure that we're not that the Trump administration is not going to be targeting those people who have been here for more than five years that have American kids that don't have criminal records that have been working in the economy and paying taxes. I am sure that they're going to hone in on the criminals who arrived less than four years ago because I wrote the dignity act and I am the first one who understands that you have to give some type of dignity to those who have been here for more than five years people who have roots in the country not people who are coming to commit crimes. If I can just clarify from you have you received those kinds of of details from anyone in a potential Trump administration because so far what we've heard is proposal for mass deportations we have about 30 seconds left have you gotten those assurances? Mass deportation to those who are committing crimes who have been here for less than five years. You understand that you have millions of undocumented who are contributing with the economy and are helping our country to be a better one. Checking in on the Trump administration you support what she just said she said that she spoke to Trump you read the legislation you're with it it's not what you were doing you were doing you were attacking hard-working people here in this country and American citizens as well let's check in with the White House and see what they had to say recently. Congress will introduce legislation that would give some illegal immigrants in the country a path to citizenship. 10 Republicans signed on to what she's calling the Dignity Act. I'm curious what the White House's position is on the legislation and if the president would veto this bill if we need to discuss. From my understanding the White House nor the president has actually read through this legislation we've been focused on of course the one big beautiful bill which passed which is another historic accomplishment of this president in record time the Genius Act this week the Recision's Package that's been the. They haven't read it they don't support it they haven't read it they don't support it so Congresswoman Salazar now says you know Hispanics are leaving the GOP in large numbers we got issues and then here's what she says about Machado the former leader of Venezuela or the opposition leader rather of Venezuela let's play this clip. The America first agenda sorry America first agenda. So just real quickly if you can Maria Machado you just heard what Congressman Crow said about her not being part of this at least the initial stage of this plan I know that you traveled to Oslo with her was she disappointed to hear that they're elevating they're allowing the elevation of the vice president to run the country for now. Well I have not been able to talk to her but I do know that she is very much pro-america and she dedicated that noble peace price to the president. We have to put things into context and the opposition within Venezuela understands that we need to this delci lady who soar herself in and that we have to work with her for now but Marco Rubio said it it's been 48 hours let's give us a few months until we create the stability and I'm sure the Maria Corina Machado. Let's just give a few more months give me two more weeks it's all going to be better I promise you I want to bring in Richard Lamond and Richard great to see you Richard executive entrepreneur over there in Miami you're running against Maria Salazar in the 27th congressional district. You know just people know her background she was like a newscaster in the area you know she she ran making all of these promises and she's she lies about everything and it's very dangerous lies because she lured her community into basically a death trap and now it's like a Ponzi scheme where she keeps moving the goalposts as her people and and the district is under attack. Talk to us about the district that you're running for. Absolutely so this district is in many ways the key district here in Florida it covers the heart of Miami you mentioned Eileen Higgins mayoral victory a big part of this district is the city of Miami where she won it is a district that is heavily Cuban, heavily Venezuelan basically, pan-latan-american and you nailed every piece of this where she's been with Trump every step of the way she's has said like you said in the clip that these that we're only going to focus on criminals, only to focus on criminals and yet here this district is also the one within our backyard is alligator Alcatraz and that prison camp out there where she went out to the site toward and said the beds were pretty comfortable so this is a congresswoman that is basically a weather vane she leads from behind on every issue you know one of the big things that she has done is not support the Venezuelan community you mentioned Maria Corrión Machado but also Venezuelans here in south Florida have lost temporary protected status while the same Maduro regime is in power she has not stood up to administration when Cubans have had double the number of deportations this year than they've had last year a lot of seniors many of them of Cuban descent have been left in fear because she initially did not support expanding the snap benefits that almost were cut she has supported the Caroline Levy talked about the big beautiful bill she voted to cut a lot of programs for the seniors in her district this district has the large one of the largest numbers of Obamacare recipients in the entire country and she is one who cut the tax credits that made it affordable some of the people in my district I speak to their their insurance bills have gone from $450 to over $1,200 a month so this is a congresswoman that has repeatedly failed the difference now from previously is that people have caught on to this I go into a lot of spaces with people who voted Trump three times Salazar multiple times and they talk about how they're fed up with her she's never in the community she's focused on political theater not the real problems in our community and you know and the fact is her only real solution this problem you mentioned the dignity act it's a it's not a pathway to any kind of citizenship there is no pathway to citizenship in that law it's a penalty box it requires immigrants who come here to pay additional fees it is one that makes sure that we have a second class of citizen here in the United States something that is completely against the entire concept of the American dream and she is someone that has failed this community every turn and and that's a big reason why i'm running right i mean she's a total fraud i mean she's said this dignity act's going to make sure everybody here is protected we've got your back mass deportations does not mean mass deportations and trump says he's coming for you regardless of your background he's he's not actually going to be doing that i got your back so then trump revokes temporary protected status he goes after hardworking people just people who are here family members children we see the which by the way the big one here right now is the Haitians right so the Haitians only recently got restored we have a huge Haitian community down here in south florida so part of the interruption but this is something that it's not just venezuela community it's not just the nicaragua and the human community but the Haitian community the city is one that is built by immigrants it's one that when you come here you could tell that spanish in many ways is the first language um and so you know this is this is a congresswoman that is it never shows up in the community has never hosted a single public town hall her entire time in office and so a lot of times when i speak to people i said what do you think is going to be different in the next five months that didn't happen the last five years she's only passed and written in past one bill her entire time in congress and it's guess what about birds so she is someone who literally has been ineffective as a congresswoman and and people are ready for a change right so so then she's rooting for the invasion of venezuela because she has to move the goalposts in her ponzi scheme because now if she can get maria carina machado the opposition leader installed as the leader and start you know reuniting families with venezuela after a lot of the tps has been revoked and people being deported to a repressive regime and having these atrocities in her mind she's like okay that's my that's my out look we got machado i kept my and then donald trump's like yeah machado doesn't have respect of the people in venezuela i'm gonna go with the maduro regime i'm gonna go with delcy rodriguez because trump opens up a kittari bank account to sell the oil there to his rich oligarch friends to then give himself the money and hide it in kittari bank accounts makes machado give him the nobel prize like the the actual physical metal framed by the way like a frame frame and it's just like it's like mocking your district it's like it's the it's i can't think of anything worse to do but you're saying people are finally waking up like you're seeing like when was the final thing because i saw videos you know still you know a little hivana you know uh five months ago and people would be like well you know i don't like his policy here i don't like his immigration policy but i do like his policy on you know transgender sports i'm like what are you even talking about you're you're an immigrant the policy is to get rid of you what are you talking about you're so so where are we now look it's it's it's very hard to treat people in miami and especially a lot of times nationally the democratic party has tried to treat Hispanic people as a monolith it is not the case at all it it breaks down very much by age how many generations have been here um you know very much there is an immovable group which is the very old school cuban community but there are more recent arrivals as well um i will tell you for a fact that down here it may sound silly to many folks listening but um the attack of socialists does land here in south florida because many of these people have fled regimes that have declared themselves that and so for example i was on a telemundo interview where they asked me like what do you think about the democratic party being viewed as socialist and communist and i said well only one of us has created hundreds of jobs i have but my opponents created none which one of us is the socialist the answer is none of us but that's the kind of energy that we as democrats need to focus on down here to combat that and that's the kind of energy that then once i can clear the mind of that sort of like specter of castro kind of rising up here in south florida we're all dealing with the same issues here i can tell you at the at the presidential level i've had people tell me greenland was the last straw that you know these the the murders of two american citizens in minnesota was the last straw you know today we have a post we saw where you know the obamas are being portrayed as monkeys being posted by the president everyone's kind of having their own last straw but the unifying factor that unites everyone is the fact that miami has been since coveted one of the most unaffordable cities in this entire country and when we all when i talk to you about the impact that the big bad ugly whatever the heck bill you want to call it these days has had on this community it's had an enormous negative impact on seniors on young people i talk about and i talk about my policies in the terms of freedom because i think every every candidate has their own district in a district like mine which is purple leads like the republican but it's key to us flipping the house and maintaining it i talk about the fact that you can't make it in america if you're not free to be healthy if you don't have access to health insurance you can't make in this country if you don't have the freedom to raise your family because you can't offend afford to send them to preschool which down here is incredibly expensive that you're not free if you can't afford a home of any kind and get a roof over your head and you're not free if our seniors can't retire with dignity and when i talk about the fact that if we don't set as the democratic party a foundation for people be successful then nobody can achieve the american dream that is where i break through a lot of the partisan barriers because most people at a values level agree that everyone deserves a fair shot um but that's that's kind of the way i'm breaking through everyone's different in doing it but couching the my my values and the same ones like built in my business which fights climate change uh into this campaign is how i is how i reach these people and it's been incredibly effective so far yeah we know it's just so fascinating because to me it's so obvious that trump is the cash throw you know trump is the maduro trump is that guy and part of being that guy is to tell you i'm not that guy and accuse everything else of exactly what you're doing he's doing price controls he is doing the same exact type of repression against freedom of speech he's the one hoisting up the oligarchy and repressing everybody else but i could go on and on that forever give me before we go though um two things one where could people learn more about the campaign and just your final message out there to people in your district and to the rest of the country right now who may be seeing you for the first time yeah so you could find us at richard dot vote richard for congress on social media and i think what's important to understand um both people in my district and people throughout the country this is one of the top flippable seats in the entire country um you know i've spent my my my life up until this point building a company eco-fi that fights climate change but bringing businesses into the climate fight um and a district like this is key to democrats not just flipping the house this time but maintaining a majority for years to come to make sure that we can not just roll back the damage this administration has done but also bring this country towards a better future and so to those across united states it's important for you to know that you're paying attention to these districts focusing on these flippable seats what that does is that also builds a beachhead to start pulling florida back which we all know has gone the crazy direction over the last few years uh and making sure that when it comes time to presidential elections we continue to have the kind of infrastructure that we need to flip states that have drifted more in a red direction so um i've been able to do that because i have a business background but i've i've given pay parental leave in my company i pay people well what they're worth i you know generous paid time off i have instilled democratic values into every aspect of my life and now is the time for us to go out in the community point out all the ways this administration has failed and and flip the u.s house and the senate and make sure we can actually deliver real results for people and that's that's entirely what i'm focused on richard lemondan appreciate you appreciate you thanks for having me on everybody hit subscribe let's get to six million subscribers want to stay plugged in become a subscriber to our sub stack at mitis plus dot com you'll get daily recaps from ron philip kowski add free episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at mitisplus.com