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President Biden: Please listen to the Cuban Americans who voted for you. (Original Post)
mia
Jan 2022
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mia
(8,473 posts)1. These are my neighbors. I support them.
This rally was up the street from where I live.
https://i.imgur.com/ODh5nbD.mp4
OnDoutside
(20,860 posts)2. Were there many Cuban Americans who voted for him ? I thought
a large majority voted for Trump ?
Haggard Celine
(17,693 posts)3. He lost Florida. Probably will again.
If he promised to do something about the blockade, he should do it. But even if he did, the votes he would get probably wouldn't be enough to make him carry the state.
OnDoutside
(20,860 posts)6. I hope he does, as I agree he won't win Florida anyway and this
is a situation that needs to be normalized asap. I suspect that he may wait until after the midterms.
Cuban Americans vote right in south Florida and probably cost Biden and Clinton that state in 2020 and 2016.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/15/unlike-other-latinos-about-half-of-cuban-voters-in-florida-backed-trump/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-cultivated-latino-vote-florida-it-paid-n1246226
mia
(8,473 posts)7. While there is no exit poll data that shows how Cubans in Florida voted in 2008 or 2012,
While there is no exit poll data that shows how Cubans in Florida voted in 2008 or 2012, our National Survey of Latinos has found that Cuban registered voters have been shifting toward the Democratic Party for more than a decade.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/15/unlike-other-latinos-about-half-of-cuban-voters-in-florida-backed-trump/