Charlie Crist running mate says Republican opponent's Latina heritage should be stripped from her identity because she's not liberal



The Democratic running mate on Charlie Crist's gubernatorial campaign opined that her Republican opponent should have her heritage stripped from her identity because she isn't sufficiently left-wing in her political views.

Karla Hernandez-Mats made the incendiary comments during an interview with Politico on Thursday.

“I’ll tell you this – I know technically she’s considered a Latina but I think that her Latina card should be revoked,” she said of Republican Lt. Gov. Jeanette Núñez.

Hernandez-Mats went on to excoriate Núñez for her comments about DeSantis bussing illegal immigrants to the home state of President Joe Biden.

“The moment that she said and she was ok as a Cuban-American saying she was ok with putting Cubans on a bus and sending them to Delaware, which is where President Biden lives – by the way, the compassionate President that came over here and saved us – because he’s the one that provided us all the resources that we have right now,” Hernandez-Mats said.

She was referring to comments Núñez made in Spanish on a radio interview in August.

“The governor isn’t going to stand there with his arms crossed. He’s thinking what he’s going to do. He’s going to send them, frankly to the state of Delaware, the President’s state,” Núñez said, as translated from Spanish.

Hernandez-Mats went on to say she didn't even consider Núñez to be Latina.

"She is completely out of touch with her community," she added. "I like to think I am the only Latina running for this seat."

Núñez responded with a video on Twitter of her Cuban parents at her inauguration waving American flags.

"These are my parents at our inauguration in 2019. As the daughter of Cuban exiles, I proudly carry their legacy and no one can take that away from me," she tweeted.

\u201cThese are my parents at our inauguration in 2019. As the daughter of Cuban exiles, I proudly carry their legacy and no one can take that away from me. \n\nHispanic by heritage, American by the grace of God.\u201d
— Jeanette M. Nu\u00f1ez (@Jeanette M. Nu\u00f1ez) 1666909847

"Hispanic by heritage, American by the grace of God," she added.

"Only a totalitarian would claim that your heritage, identity, and genetics are akin to a 'Latina card' that can be 'taken away' due to political views," responded the DeSantis rapid response team.

The Crist campaign was embarrassed by a similar accusation it made that DeSantis supporters had chanted "refried beans" at the Hispanic candidate as a racial insult. The originator of that claim later admitted that they were chanting "keep Florida free," the motto of the DeSantis campaign.

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Florida's GOP Latina governor has a message for wokesters pushing the term 'Latinx': Go scratch



Jeanette Nuñez is a conservative Republican and the first Latina lieutenant governor of Florida, and she has no use for today's woke brigade.

Leftists have a reputation for wanting to control people's lives, including ordering them around on the proper way to identify themselves and on which terms to be offended by.

Remember the brouhaha over the Washington Redskins' name? American Indians weren't driving the offense train demanding that Dan Snyder's team change its mascot — they didn't really care about it. It was the woke left that insisted that Native Americans were offended — apparently without bothering to ask Native Americans.

And now we have wokesters insisting that the terms "Latino" and "Latina" are offensive because, as is common Latin-based languages, the terms are gendered. So a group of likely non-Hispanic leftists are pushing for all of society to use the term "Latinx" instead.

Mind you, it's not the Latino crowd pushing for the change — in fact, they're not fans of the term. Just this month, a poll found that only 2% of Latinos use "Latinx," and 40% find it offensive. Even more telling: Nearly a third say they wouldn't vote for a candidate who uses the term — and that includes a quarter of Democrats.

And you can count Gov. Ron DeSantis' second-in-command as one of those offended by "Latinx."

During DeSantis' announcement Wednesday of his Stop W.O.K.E. Act to fight "corporate-sanctioned racism" in the state's school and businesses, Nuñez took time during her remarks to blast the woke mob's efforts to force "Latinx" on the population.

"I don't know about you, but I refuse to embrace these ridiculous woke terms like 'Latinx.' That's not happening," Nuñez said. "I can tell you, I am proud to stand here as the first Latina lieutenant governor in the history of our great state. And I am offended by that term, 'Latinx.'"

"And you know when it's bad when the left-leaning, fake news Miami Herald editorial board begs Democrats and progressives to drop the term," she continued.

I am proud to serve as the first Latina lieutenant governor of the great state of Florida \u2014 and I am offended by the term Latinx.pic.twitter.com/7o3h494xtK
— Jeanette Nu\u00f1ez (@Jeanette Nu\u00f1ez) 1639609250

The Herald did, indeed, run an editorial Dec. 7 calling on "progressive politicians, pundits and media friends" to "stop trying to make the term 'Latinx' a thing":

Trust us here in Miami, where, Ya tu sabes, we drink cafecitos and parental discipline is usually delivered with a chancleta.

You’re like Gretchen Wieners in the movie “Mean Girls” trying to turn “fetch” into the next cool slang. So, we’ll channel our best Regina George to say: Stop trying to make Latinx happen! It’s not going to happen!

We’re not the only ones saying that. The so-called “Latinx community” doesn’t even want to be called Latinx.

Democrats, the paper said, need to spend less time being politically correct and more time fixing the problem of them being "notoriously absent from the Hispanic community until the eve of elections."