'We now have not only a Latino strategy. We have a Cuban strategy. We have a Mexican American strategy. We have a Borinquen strategy. We have a Dominican strategy. We have a Venezuelan strategy, a Colombian strategy, an Ecuadorian strategy,' a top Florida Democrat said.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hopes to firm up support among Puerto Rican voters in Florida as part of a larger plan aimed at courting different Hispanic communities as the election approaches. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez detailed the campaign's use of"sub-ethnicity modeling" in a conference call with reporters on Sunday. Democrats hope that boosting voter turnout efforts in specific Hispanic communities, such as Democratic-leaning Puerto Ricans, will improve their chances in battleground states like Florida.."Our communities ... we share a language, but we have a tremendous diversity of experience.
Democrats are using cell phone data to locate Puerto Ricans, Florida's second-largest Hispanic group. Many settled in the state after 2017's Hurricane Maria. Close to 300,000 potential Florida voters were found to be using cell phones with the U.S. territory's 787 area code. A further 80,000 were located in another swing state, Pennsylvania.
"We wanted to identify Maria refugees, people who had been forced from the mainland, and as many of you know, many people left with their shirts on their back and their proud 787 numbers," Perez said."We went to cell phone vendors in Pennsylvania and Florida, and we asked them, 'Give us all the 787 area codes that have been picked up off your cell phone towers for the last month.
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