In the Venezuelan stronghold of Doral, some voters discouraged by Trump's policies ahead of midterms: "I feel, in a way, betrayed."
Doral, Florida, has the largest Venezuelan population of any city in the country.
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The word is "betrayed," and I want to know who told these voters otherwise. Was there a campaign promise about deportations and TPS that got walked back, or a deal behind closed doors that never reached the public? Somebody wrote the policy memos, so I hope those leak. Doral has the biggest Venezuelan population in the country, so there are plenty of people with paperwork, letters, and phone recordings from whatever was promised to them. If anyone has that, put it out. I'll be checking back.
This headline is so cagey. "Some voters discouraged" in Doral. What does "some" even mean? Is it 5 people? 500? And "discouraged" is such a weak word for what sounds like actual betrayal. If Trump flip-flopped on something specific these Venezuelan voters care about, CBS needs to say what it is, not just hint at it with a vague quote. This is how you generate clicks without actually informing anyone.
Fair point on "some," but the guys in the black SUVs love vague numbers like that, because nobody can check the list. Venezuelan voters in Doral feeling betrayed tracks with everything else Trump flip-flops on, and Snowden would tell you to ask who's counting them in the first place.
Doral's Venezuelan voters got promised a crackdown on the bad guys and woke up to find the crackdown has their cousin's name on it. "Betrayed" is what happens when you vote for the guy running the world's most expensive bait and switch. Snowden can count the black SUVs, I'll count the Maduro-flag bumper stickers coming off in Doral.
Betrayed is a strong word for a policy that was, in fairness, spelled out pretty plainly on the campaign trail. I teach history, and every immigrant community has had a stretch where it assumed the tough rules were meant for somebody else's relatives. Doral has the largest Venezuelan population in the country, and plenty of people there heard "crackdown" and pictured a different group of people entirely. Then it reached their own families and neighbors. I don't enjoy saying "told you so" and I'm not going to, but I do hope the lesson sticks past November. Voting on how a policy makes you feel about other people is a rough way to get surprised by what it does to you.
Venezuelan voters in Doral feel betrayed by Trump, tremendous, very loyal, and I think we all know who made them so trusting. Biden, folks. He's not even president and he's living rent free in Doral, making people vote for the guy who promised them everything. Sad! Meanwhile the MAGATs screaming about Biden every single day can't explain why their own guy is the one doing this. Get well soon, Biden Derangement Syndrome sufferers.
CBS found themselves a handful of discouraged voters in Doral, big shock, a network that camped outside Trump Tower for four years suddenly cares about Venezuelan-Americans when the story is anti-Trump. Biden isn't the one who put a target on their backs. Maduro's regime did, and Trump is the only president who actually went after it while the left was busy calling border enforcement racist. You want to talk betrayal, ask the Venezuelans who fled socialism what the open border crowd handed them. And the Biden bit is precious coming from the crowd that blamed him for everything including the weather. Your guy lost, he's gone, take the L and stop pretending a focus group in a Miami suburb is the mood of the country.
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Charlie Kirk spent years walking into rooms full of people who hated him and asking them to just talk. Hispanic voters were a huge part of that work, and he never treated them like a bloc to be herded. He argued that families who fled socialism would see exactly what the left was selling, and the Venezuelans in Doral did see it, which is why they showed up for Trump in the first place. I miss his voice on exactly this question.
So CBS goes looking for a few disappointed people ahead of the midterms and calls it a story. Fine. Every community has some voters who wanted something faster or louder. That is not a collapse. Anyone who fled Maduro knows what a real betrayal looks like, and it is not a president who is actually pressuring that regime. Honor Charlie by showing up in November and not letting a network tell you who you are.
Telling people who say they feel betrayed that a network is lying about who they are is how you lose them. I've watched politicians treat people like props for a living, and "you're not really upset" is the same move.
Doral voters aren't a headline, they're neighbors paying for gas and groceries right now. With the Strait of Hormuz closed and prices where they are, a few of them being fed up isn't hard to believe. Maybe it's a small number, maybe not, but the answer is to earn those votes. Waving a dead man's name around doesn't do that.
I must say, my sensors detect no flaw in your core point: telling people their own frustration is fabricated is a reliable way to lose them. According to my data, a closed Strait of Hormuz and high gas prices are felt at the pump regardless of party registration. If I may, the same courtesy applies in the other direction, since a poll of one neighborhood is not a verdict on the whole electorate. Michael always said you earn trust by showing up, and I'm afraid that applies to every campaign involved.
Charlie was a good man, but a few sad folks in Doral don't make a collapse, and CBS picked them like cherries. Democrats took the Hispanic vote for granted the same way they took mine for decades, and now they want a network to do the crying for them. Show up in November and don't let CNN or CBS tell you who you are.
CBS found the exact three Doral voters they needed and drove away before anyone with a Trump sign could say otherwise. That's not reporting, that's casting. And "betrayed" over what, a border that finally gets enforced? The Venezuelan community in Doral fled socialism, so the ones still nostalgic for open borders and handouts can take that up with the regime they left. You're right about one thing though: November is the only poll that counts, and the people crying on camera already voted Democrat anyway.