Latinas for Trump founder unseated Florida Democrat after ‘shadow candidate’ with his surname entered the race

[KAMI-SAMA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/20/florida-election-trump-senator-rodriguez/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_homepage&utm_source=reddit.com

WPLG reporter Glenna Milberg approached the South Florida address listed for Alex Rodriguez earlier this week ready to pepper him with questions: Why had the 55-year-old mechanic abruptly decide to run for office? How did he win nearly 3 percent of the vote without even a campaign website? Did he live in Miami at all?

"I'm looking for Alex," she told a white-haired man who answered the door. "Is he around?"
"Uh, no. He'll be back tomorrow, though," the man replied, refusing to say where Rodriguez was, how to reach him, or why a man with no history in politics — a registered Republican until a few months ago — had become an unaffiliated candidate for Florida's 37th State Senate District.
Days later, Milberg discovered the man at the door had been lying. He was, in fact, Rodriguez, whose more than 6,000 votes may have tipped the election away from a Democratic incumbent in Miami with the same last name.

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A close race was always expected between state Sen. José Javier Rodríguez (D) and Ileana Garcia (R), a well-funded Republican challenger who had worked for President Trump's campaign and previously founded the group Latinas for Trump.
But as a recount last week confirmed Garcia's victory by the thinnest of margins — 34 votes — the Democratic incumbent has raised alarms that Alex Rodriguez ran for just one reason: to confuse voters and siphon off ballots meant for José Javier Rodríguez.
"Democracy requires transparency," José Javier Rodríguez said in a concession video last week. "In order to achieve that, I believe this election requires a full investigation so that those who may have violated the law are held to account and so that such tactics are not used in future elections."

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It's such a shit show. Republicans need to pay for being so corrupt. I really hope there is something they can do about this.

 

[mikhailguy]

Florida GOP put up fake candidates with similar names to the D candidate in local races to split the vote

THE FRAUD IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

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there was already a thread about this

 

[MinerArcaniner]

I don't know what's worse; the Republicans pulling something like this, or voters falling for it.

 

[Combo]

I don't know what's worse; the Republicans pulling something like this, or voters falling for it.

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According to this person, the latter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla

 

[Steel]

I don't know what's worse; the Republicans pulling something like this, or voters falling for it.

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Voters are constantly falling for something or other, expecting them to not is naive.

 

[DigitalOp]

It's a low dog move but I can't help but also blame the idiot electorate

Takes three seconds to Google candidate affiliation

People google every fucking thing under the sun but can't take 1 fucking second to make a proper vote