Current Events > MAGA Cultist Gets Thoroughly Owned in Mayoral Race Against Democrat

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/blown-race-miami-dade-mayor-233800538.html

The Miami-Dade Elections Department on Wednesday shot down a request from the campaign of losing mayoral candidate Alex Otaola to recount the votes in the race for county mayor after he questioned incumbent Daniella Levine Cavas landslide victory.

Otaola, a pro-Trump social media influencer who finished a distant third in Tuesdays election, told supporters at a watch party that same night that he didnt trust the results and would demand a recount. Otaolas campaign manager Andy Santana wrote in an email to Miami-Dades elections department later that evening that a recount was essential to ensure the accuracy of the outcome given the close nature of the results though Levine Cava earned nearly three times the votes of her closest competitor.

In a response sent Wednesday afternoon, Vanessa Innocent, an assistant deputy supervisor of elections, declined the Otaola campaigns request, pointing to state laws that trigger a recount only when a candidate is defeated by half a percentage point or less. Levine Cava finished more than 34 percentage points ahead of her closest competitor.

Recounts are not conducted by request, Innocent wrote in her response.

Unofficial results show Otaola received 33,252 votes on Tuesday night, amounting to less than 12% of the vote. That put him more than 10 percentage points behind second-place finisher Manny Cid and 46 percentage points behind Levine Cava, who earned a second four-year term in office.

Otaola is widely known as a Republican YouTube host and staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, whose baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen have sown doubt in the integrity of U.S. elections among a wide swath of his supporters.

At a festival-like election results party at the candidates farm in Homestead on Wednesday night, Otaola questioned the veracity of the Miami-Dade election results. He said he would not accept them until there was a vote-by-vote recount.

Its impossible, impossible that Daniella Levine Cava, who has done an awful job over the last four years, got more votes than when no one knew her, he said, adding that internal exit polls placed him in a runoff and that Miami-Dade Countys electoral health depended on it.

The crowd screamed fraud and it was stolen. Some volunteers cried upon hearing the primarys results. Many supporters in attendance at the rally also echoed their candidates doubts.

Many in the attendance at the party were Cuban supporters who said they supported Otaola because his anti-communist messaging resonated with them. Born in Cuba, Otaola pledged to make Miami-Dade a communist-free zone, one of his main campaign policies. There was also overlap between Trump and Otaola supporters, and many at the election party in Homestead viewed both politicians as wronged by a rigged system that favors mainstream politicians.

By Wednesday evening, Otaolas campaign had not released any further official statements about the election results. However, his campaigns Instagram page amplified messages from supporters alluding to fraud in the county elections and requesting recounts.

Responding to the Otaola campaign Tuesday night, Miami-Dade Deputy Supervisor of Elections Roberto Rodrguez said the results are what they are, adding that the elections office is open to the public for people to come see the tabulation process.

Humble_Novice posted...

The crowd screamed fraud and it was stolen. Some volunteers cried upon hearing the primarys results. Many supporters in attendance at the rally also echoed their candidates doubts.

Totally not Weird. Totally normal reactions from people who haven't bought into almost four years of being fed the exact same lie every day.

They cry all the time fuck there feelings

Imagine having your legacy be encouraging a bunch of chuds to not accept free and fair elections that their candidate loses in and crying fraud all the time.

CADE_FOSTER posted...

They cry all the time fuck there feelings

Imagine how annoying it's going to be if things don't go well for them in the upcoming elections.

Let's keep this up. Trump is celebrating primary victories. But those won't matter when the Democrat running against his people sweep them up. VOTE.

Humble_Novice posted...

Imagine how annoying it's going to be if things don't go well for them in the upcoming elections.

I work in responding to public records requests. It's going to be a nightmare leading up to and after election night.

Humble_Novice posted...

Many in the attendance at the party were Cuban supporters who said they supported Otaola because his anti-communist messaging resonated with them. Born in Cuba, Otaola pledged to make Miami-Dade a communist-free zone, one of his main campaign policies. There was also overlap between Trump and Otaola supporters, and many at the election party in Homestead viewed both politicians as wronged by a rigged system that favors mainstream politicians.

As a child of a Cuban immigrant, it's absolutely sickening to me how much of the Cuban population in Florida just eats that shit up. All a Republican has to say is "God good, Communism bad" and they get a ton of Cuban votes, even though a Trump dictatorship would be just as bad if not worse for them than the Castro regime that their families left Cuba to get away from. Every day, I thank my father for pulling our family away from organized religion early on so we didn't fall into that same hole.

Calwings posted...

As a child of a Cuban immigrant, it's absolutely sickening to me how much of the Cuban population in Florida just eats that shit up. All a Republican has to say is "God good, Communism bad" and they get a ton of Cuban votes, even though a Trump dictatorship would be just as bad if not worse for them than the Castro regime that their families left Cuba to get away from. Every day, I thank my father for pulling our family away from organized religion early on so we didn't fall into that same hole.

I'm hoping younger Cubans are able to move away from the wicked embrace of the GOP.

2024 Florida General Elections Results - Mayor Miami-Dade
Updated 8:35 AM EDT Aug. 22, 2024
99% est. vote in
*Incumbent
Candidate % Votes Total Votes
Daniella Levine Cava* 57.9% 163,608
Manny Cid 23% 64,989
Alex Otaola 11.8% 33,254
Carlos Garin 3% 8,333
Shlomo Danzinger 1.9% 5,300
Eddy Rojas 1.3% 3,608
Miguel Quintero 1.2% 3,313

Dude wants a recount in a race he finished THIRD and lost by 130,000 votes.

This is the new Republican Party. They don't lose elections, elections were "Stolen" from them.

Votes don't care about your feelings.

Probably didn't help that he only spoke Spanish.

It's one of the top comments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZVPdv_RFCg

@mjohnsimon1337
1 day ago
Dude comes to this country 20 years ago and still can't speak a lick of English? If he can't respect our language, why would anyone want him as mayor?