Richard Lamondin

And so a lot of times when I speak to people, I said, what do you think is gonna be different in the next five months that didn't happen in the last five years?

She's only passed and written and passed one bill her entire time in Congress.

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 breaks down very much by age, how many generations have been here.

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.

I will tell you for a fact that down here, it may sound silly to many folks listening,

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 my opponents create 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 could tell you at the at the presidential level, I've had people tell me Greenland was the last straw that

You know, 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 COVID, 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.