Yikes! Gaetz Says GOP Doesn't Need Women Because They Are Gaining 'Julio And Jamaal'

During an appearance on Newsmax this week, Matt Gaetz was asked about the Republican Party's problems with suburban women voters. Instead of working on ways to attract more women voters, Gaetz shrugged it off and suggested that they don't matter because for every woman they lose, they are gaining, as Gaetz put it, "a Julio and a Jamaal." Those are obviously stereotypical names for Latino and Black voters, and Gaetz's language probably isn't going to attract anyone new to the Party. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, decided to go on Newsmax this week and say one of the dumbest and possibly one of the more racist things that we have heard from a Republican, uh, lawmaker in about a week or so. I mean, they say racist stuff all the time, but I don't know if Matt Gaetz was intentionally trying to be racist or if it was just some accidental racism. But either way, all the people who've seen this kind of agree this is, this is racism buddy. Here's what happened. As again, Matt Gaetz went on Newsmax and he was asked, you know about, Hey, what's happening with the Republican party? Y'all got problems with suburban women, they don't like Republicans. And Matt Gaetz referencing the Iowa Caucus earlier this week that, by the way, had lower than average turnout had this to say there is a relentless, a relentlessness and persistence in the Trump campaign that I think really emerges outta the candidate himself.

And Iowa, this victory was so huge and really it was a testament to the resiliency of the Trump voter because you had the worst conditions possible, historically challenging weather and ice. And these folks came out and voted overwhelmingly for the president. I met with a lot of those folks. This is the blue collar realignment of the Republican Party. And what I can tell you is for every Karen we lose talking about suburban women, classifying you all as Karens. There's a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement. And that bodes well for our ability to be more diverse and to be more durable as we head into not only the rest of the primary contest, but also the general election. Because we don't need the Karens when we've got Julio's and Jamal's, of course, referring to Latino voters and black voters.

But you used stereotypical names that are often used in derogatory ways to describe an entire race of people. And again, whether you meant to or not, that is in fact racism. I mean, Jesus Christ, you could have just said, for every white woman we lose, we're gaining ground with minority populations. That's one way to say it and not sound like a total hat. You could have said, Hey, we we're signing up more Latino voters for the Republican party. We're signing up lots of black voters for the Republican party. You know, so, so we may be losing one demographic, but we're gaining ground in two. You could have said that that wouldn't have been racist, but you intentionally chose those words. And the question is why. Right? Because that's what doesn't make any sense to me. Unless of course this is how you feel as a person, Matt. And by the way, going out there and referring to all Latino voters as Julio and all black voters as Jamal,

Um, that's not gonna win you over any people. Like that statement that you made is not gonna cause any Latino voter or black voter to say, oh wow, I wanna be a Republican now. So you may wanna rethink your little calculus there, buddy, because it's not gonna work out the way that you think it is. Not to mention the fact that these uh, uh, voting groups definitely actually prefer Democrats over Republicans. Have you gained a little bit of ground in some of those areas? Sure. But you've still lost ground in other areas that you clearly think aren't important anymore.