As Democrats froth at the mouth that celebrity actor George Clooney turned his back on President Joe Biden, a former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder outlined an even scarier reality for the anti-MAGA party.
Math.
On Wednesday, Clooney was the recipient of a mountain of backlash for his op-ed in The New York Times, in which he admitted he "loves Joe Biden," but called for another candidate to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. The message didn't sit well with Democratic supporters, who've fought tooth and nail in recent days to try to unite the party around a defiant Biden, who has insisted he will stay in the race.
Mike Madrid, a Latino GOP political consultant and author of “The Latino Century,” took to X on Wednesday to rip into Democrats' response to Clooney-gate, and point out what he feels is really the problem for the party.
"They’re far more interested in what George Clooney says than what the math says - let alone the demography. Which about sums up the Democrats current dilemma," he wrote Wednesday night on X.
The math in question revolves around Democratic support from young voters and Hispanic voters, he argues — "folks those are basically the same demographic."
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Madrid said that while Democrats squabble over "vibes and what their eyes saw" at the debate, Republicans are going after "math and science." This essentially means Democrats are trying to win over their own voters, who will come out for Biden anyway come November. And they're doing this as they "continue to leak US born Hispanic men and have no plan to address it."
"So while Dems fire on their own base - Trump's picking up new voters," Madrid argued.
Herein lies a major math problem — a Biden win will be decided by whether he can gain more college-educated, white, independent and Republican women than Republicans gain U.S.-born Hispanic men.
And, he noted, about 2 million new U.S.-born Hispanic men will vote for the first time this year. That's far higher than the "sliver of ‘swing’ voters" the media hones in on in states such as Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Georgia.
"For all the teeth gnashing about swing voters, undecided voters and bulls--- about focus groups and ‘voters I’m talking to’ nonsense - pay attention to how Trump's campaign views the race," he said.
"They’re looking at math and voter models. That’s how you win a race folks."
