Mr. LaRosa is a former special assistant to President Biden and a former press secretary for Jill Biden.
“Pennsylvania has been political ground zero in presidential elections for nearly a quarter-century, and 2024 will be no different. Joe Biden carried his birth state by almost 82,000 votes in 2020 and will need to win it again this year.
As a native Pennsylvanian, I have confidence that he can. But my confidence can be shaken. There is one person on Donald Trump’s reported shortlist of running mates who has the ability to carve a Pennsylvania-shaped slice out of the so-called blue wall of Rust Belt states that Democratic presidential candidates typically need to win: Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
That sound you’re hearing is the collective explosion of heads from my friends in the Democratic Party, followed by admonitions that “Latinos do not vote as a monolith.” That’s true: Cuban, Venezuelan, Dominican and Mexican Americans, as well as Puerto Ricans, do not vote in unison.
But there is something Latino voters have in common: their Latin American roots and the pride that comes from casting a vote for someone who looks and talks like them. Mr. Rubio would break a significant cultural barrier as the first Latino on a national ticket. We’ve seen how that feeling of cultural and identity pride can marshal voters and transcend ideological and partisan preferences, and it should never be underestimated.
Seldom do running mates play an outsized role in our presidential contests, as most voters focus on the top of the ticket. But Mr. Rubio gives Mr. Trump something no other presidential candidate has offered — the chance for Latinos to vote for one of their own to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Mr. Rubio could help the ticket in Nevada, where he spent a formative chunk of his adolescence and where his parents worked as a maid and a bartender in Las Vegas, or another marginal Biden state with a large Latino population, such as Arizona.” . . . .
Dear Michael LaRosa,
If most of what you say is true, why are you spelling it out for the Republicans? The top comments shoot many holes through your presentation, and did a great job of lower my blood pressure. I don’t have a nick name for Democrats like you, but you are part of group that fails to recognize the Joe Biden is one of the greatest presidents in the modern era, getting important legislation through a congress many thought was unworkable. I wish I were better at jokes, wit and nicknames, but I’ll offer Goat Killer. Joe Biden is not the greatest of all time yet, but if we survive the climate crisis, which currently, is unlikely, he just might be refered to as one of the greatest American presidents of all time, for setting a new direction with the Inflation Reduction Act, which is really, the Reduce Global Warming Before it is too late act. If Joe Biden takes my advice, and really closes the border to illegal immigration, then he just might win, as the Funky Irishman keeps predicting in these comments, by a landslide. Every morally defensible act, that reduces human overpopulation, will be viewed by historians, if we survive, as great act of accomplishment that allowed our survival. David is writing his second book on the climate crisis. His first, is called “Noah’s New Ark, A Musicalia. Songs and Thoughts on Nature, climate change and the sixth extinction.”
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