Congressman Carlos Giménez told Lusa that he believes Republicans will “maintain a majority of five, seven, 10 seats” for Florida in the House of Representatives.
In the November 5 elections in the United States, control of Congress will also be decided, in addition to the presidential elections, and two Republican congressmen in Florida indicated that the party’s majority in the House of Representatives must be maintained.
On the sidelines of a partisan event in Miami with the Hispanic community, Congressman Carlos Giménez, one of the four candidates for the House of Representatives in this electoral cycle, told Lusa that there are currently between 20 and 25 seats at stake between the two parties . that “will determine the majority,” with the rest being solidly Republican or Democrat.
“There will not be 40-seat majorities [na câmara baixa do Congresso]. I think we will maintain a majority of five, seven, 10 seats,” Giménez told Lusa.
10 days before the presidential elections, the congressman joined the campaign in Miami, the largest city in the state of Florida (southeast), which has nearly 22 million inhabitants and where people can now vote in advance and by mail .
For Giménez, Republicans are benefiting from voters’ focus on the economy, inflation, the United States’ global reputation and immigration, even though many Hispanics, the majority of South Florida’s population, are immigrants.
“The Democrats made a miscalculation. Hispanics are in favor of legal immigration,” Giménez tells Lusa.
“This is just the beginning… with the Democratic Party turning increasingly to the left and abandoning the values we hold dear as Hispanics, we will see more and more Hispanics voting Republican,” he argues.
The loss of the Hispanic vote, historically more inclined towards the Democratic Party, contributes to the loss of traditional values, he believes.
“Republicans share the same values as Hispanics… we are workers, we are people of faith, family, we believe in the American dream, we do not believe in socialism or dictators. The Democratic Party is moving more and more to the left and abandoning Hispanics,” says Giménez.
Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar also participated in the event, who like Giménez, called for early voting, in a place next to one of the polling stations open in South Florida. According to official data, more than 3.3 million people have already voted in the state.
In statements to Lusa, the congresswoman predicted a Republican victory in the most Democratic counties in the state: Miami-Dade and Palm Beach.
“The results will be extraordinary, overwhelmingly in favor of the Republican Party, like never before. Because? for socialism, the economy and the border. They [democratas] They were buried,” Salazar said.
Democratic President “Joe Biden created the biggest crisis in the last 100 years, it affected the Hispanic community like never before,” he argues. “They created this problem themselves, a big mistake.”
Source: Observadora
