As COVID-19 cases spike, St. Augustine businesses see sales increases as visitors return
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As COVID-19 cases spike, St. Augustine businesses see sales increases as visitors return
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Many St. Augustine businesses are seeing a spike in sales after being hit hard during the pandemic.
On Friday, downtown St. Augustine was packed with people enjoying a night out. But a year ago, the street was a lot quieter during the height of the pandemic.
Walk down the historic St. George Street and you’ll likely see people walking, shopping and eating at restaurants.
Lisa Rivera works at Ancient City Tours which like many businesses was impacted by the pandemic.
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3 May 2021
South Texas Hispanic females are leading the charge to turn the Democrat stronghold of the Rio Grande Valley red.
The
New York Times argued Sunday President Joe Biden’s victory with “only” 15 percentage points in the Rio Grande Valley is presumably due to Hispanic females who disagree with the Democrat Party over social issues and open borders. Hillary Clinton won in a “steep slide” by 39 percent in 2016.
Chair of the Hidalgo County Republican Party and daughter of a Democratic state legislator Adrienne Pena-Garza is one example. She told the
Times the Democrat Party has gone too far left on gun control and abortion.
As a sort of companion piece to our earlier post, I was interested in this
New York Timesstory about how Hispanic conservatives in Texas are trying to solidify the undeniable gains that Republicans made with Hispanic voters in the 2020 election. These gains were made in the face of a Republican administration that made the country’s Hispanic communities its primary scapegoats. This is a legitimate concern for Democrats going forward with their plans to purple Texas up.
That conservative surge and the liberal decline has buoyed the Republican Party’s hopes about its ability to draw Hispanic voters into what has long been an overwhelmingly white political coalition and to challenge Democrats in heavily Latino regions across the country. Now party officials, including Mr. Abbott, the governor, have flocked to the Rio Grande Valley in a kind of pilgrimage, eager to meet the people who helped Republicans rapidly gain ground in a longtime Democratic stronghold.