Miami Herald: Ted Cruz & Marco Rubio aren’t the Cuban dream team

[Laura PourMeADrink]

“Y’all know how to make a Cuban feel welcome.” — Ted Cruz in Miami

Don’t let the machine-gun-bacon enthusiast fool you.

The senator from Texas has no idea what a Miami welcome feels like — or he might have judged his appearances less generously. Reactions may have been polite, but by our standards of warmth, the temperature was tepid.

“You go, Ted!” some shouted, prompting Cruz’s manipulative remark at Miami Dade College, home to scores of the undocumented he’d like to wall off. I’m one of you, Cruz was saying, but we know better, don’t we?

Miami’s native son, Marco Rubio, a climate-change denier, isn’t faring any better in the popularity department. He may scoop up some Jeb Bush votes, but he won’t win Florida.

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