ORLANDO -- Hillary Clinton’s primary lead in Florida is so commanding – she was clobbering fellow Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders by 44 points in a recent poll – that it might be tempting for her campaign to ignore the state and focus on early contests elsewhere.

But Florida’s rich Democratic donors continue to pull Clinton back, and lurking beneath her primary dominance is another set of poll numbers that are more worrisome for the Clinton campaign.

Clinton trailed all of the top Republican presidential contenders in Florida in a recent survey.

It may be one reason the candidate had her sights firmly trained on Republicans, and not Sanders, during a rally in the Orlando suburbs Wednesday.

In her fourth public appearance in Florida since July, Clinton teed off on the GOP presidential field, past Republican presidents and GOP Gov. Rick Scott.

“They seem more interested in seeing who can say the most offensive and insulting things,” Clinton said of the GOP presidential candidates. “You’ve heard what they’ve said. They have insulted Latinos, women, Muslims. They are determined to absolutely insult everybody before this is over. They’re out-Trumping Trump, if you will.”

In an energetic speech heavily focused on the economy, Clinton slammed the economic stewardship of recent GOP presidents.

“Our economy does so much better when we have a Democrat in the White House,” Clinton said, citing the recessions that began during the presidencies of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

Clinton noted that Florida was hit particularly hard by the recession that began in 2008.

“In Florida you didn’t just live through a Great Recession, you had a greater recession,” Clinton told the crowd of roughly 500 at a gymnasium in a heavily Hispanic area south of Orlando.

And she went after Scott on a range of issues, from refusing to expand the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor to rejecting federal funding for high-speed rail.

“You have to wonder about Gov. Scott’s priorities,” Clinton said.

The candidate said her economic strategy would focus on improving public infrastructure, making college more affordable and investing in clean energy, among other proposals.

There was a strong effort to showcase diversity at the event and appeal to Hispanics, especially the Puerto Ricans who have flocked to the region as the U.S. territory experiences a prolonged recession.

Members of the crowd waved “Puerto Ricans for Hillary” signs and there was a performance by a Latino singer before Clinton spoke.

“I believe anyone who wants to be president should give attention to Puerto Rico and remind our fellow Americans Puerto Ricans are American citizens,” Clinton said. “That’s something often overlooked or even denied.”

Florida will play a critical role in the general election and the state has been kind to the Clintons in the past.

Former president Bill Clinton won Florida in 1996 and it was a bright spot for his wife in her failed 2008 Democratic primary bid against President Barack Obama.

Florida’s moderate leanings are well suited to the Clinton’s traditional brand of centrist politics.

The state’s diversity – something Hillary Clinton pointed to in her speech -- also benefits Democrats and is one reason Clinton is dominating the primary here. Sanders has struggled to extend his support beyond white liberals.

“Florida is so much a symbol of America,” Clinton said Wednesday. “Diverse, dynamic, optimistic, you have everything in this state, from big cities to small towns, from high rises to family farms, and the diversity of the people here in Florida sends such a strong message about the importance of us always valuing the fact we are a nation of immigrants.”

If Democrats win Florida, Republicans have little chance of winning the presidency. Obama did it twice and Clinton would seem positioned to continue that streak, but recent polling shows the candidate is not well thought of by many Floridians.

A Florida Atlantic University survey found that only 41 percent of residents view her favorably, while 54 percent have an unfavorable opinion of her.

The poll found that not only are candidates such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio – home state favorites who many believe have the best chance of neutralizing Clinton’s strengths with minorities, women and other key demographics – beating Clinton right now, but so are outsiders such as Trump and Ben Carson.

“The numbers continually show she is distrusted, that she is dishonest, people believe she lies,” said Rick Wilson, a Tallahassee-based GOP strategist.

Wilson describes Clinton as a “damaged candidate” with a “rigid brand” whose quest to become the first female president is “a weaker argument than they think because Florida voters are also looking at the economy, they’re also looking foreign policy weaknesses.”

“People do not view her as an overwhelming tidal wave here in Florida that is going to activate in the same way the minority title wave that Barack Obama did in 2012,” Wilson said.

Peter Ayers, a 72-year-old African American from Kissimmee who attended the rally, said Clinton will inspire minorities to vote because her and her husband “relate to us more.”

As for Clinton’s poor favorability ratings in Florida, Ayers said she has plenty of time to boost her image and the brutal GOP primary should benefit her.

“They’re giving her a lot of room to play with, fighting among themselves,” Ayers said.

Clinton’s latest trip through Florida included a number of fundraisers. The Orlando rally was her only public event.

“Florida is so important,” she said. “We see that time and time again.”