The Battle For Florida's Latino Voters Could Decide The Entire Presidential Election

[FM123]

(HuffPost) Facing relentless attacks about “socialism,” Joe Biden’s campaign is delivering a new message: Trump is the dictator so many Latinos in Florida once fled.

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To win the 2020 election, Trump needs Florida ― no Republican has won the White House without winning the state since 1924, and given Trump’s falling polling numbers in several key battlegrounds, it’s nearly impossible to come up with a combination of outcomes that gets Trump across the 270-vote electoral college threshold without Florida’s 29.

And to win Florida, the president likely needs Cuban Americans like Nuñez to support him in numbers similar to those of 2016, when 54% of Florida’s Cuban American voters backed him over his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

That has set up a furious fight between Trump and Biden for this familiar group of Floridians, who may no longer be the largest bloc of Latino voters in the Sunshine State but are still the most influential. And “socialism” has become a key focus of the dispute, especially as Trump has waged cynical battles to bring down socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and cripple the Communist government in Cuba.

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Biden is trying to flip the script on Trump, honing in not just on Cuban Americans but on South Florida’s small-but-growing segment of Venezuelan Americans. Last week, the Biden campaign organized a virtual roundtable where Latino supporters who’d fled Venezuela, Cuba and other authoritarian states in Latin America made the case that it’s Trump who is the caudillo so many Florida Latinos ran away from — the sort of dictatorial strongman they thought they’d left behind. (Read More)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-donald-trump-latino-voters-florida_n_5f4ebb61c5b6250f655c193d

[beachbumbob]

1. lots of Puerto Ricans now live stateside, especially in Florida, need those folks in a big way

[dhill926]

4. Absolutely...

[FM123]

5. Yes!

We have a million Puerto Ricans living here in FL, more than any other state at this time....

[OrlandoDem2]

2. Biden supports Puerto Rican statehood!

https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/08/14/bidenstatehood/

During this historic moment when the political future of Puerto Rico continues to be debated both on the island and within the federal spheres of Washington, D.C., upon deep reflection I could not pass up on this opportunity to share my political experience not only as a current Presidential Delegate for Joe Biden in Puerto Rico but also as a Puerto Rican who also serves within the United States Army Reserve. As a territorial delegate, I do not enjoy the right to the presidential vote, with the exception of being able to vote in the Democratic Convention while I reside in Puerto Rico. Because of this, I fight every day for the equality of the entire 3.2 million American citizens who live in Puerto Rico.

In 2017, I had the opportunity to attend the first presentation of Joe Biden’s book Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose in New York City, where the Vice President described how the passing of his beloved son Beau helped him find his purpose in life in the middle of such tragic adversity while still finding a way to move forward.

[FM123]

6. Yes!

This is a such a marked difference from trumpy who wants to give away Puerto Rico or trade it for Greenland...

[OrlandoDem2]

9. Correct! Please share this far and wide! If Puerto Rican's GOTV for Biden, we win!

Statehood is an important issue for them which often impacts how they vote!

[Chainfire]

3. The Cuban/Floridians have not yet forgiven the Democrats

for the Bay of Pigs disaster. It is going to take one or two more generations.

[FM123]

7. Yes, I think it is a generational thing, the millennials/genZ kids feel differently than the boomers

[In It to Win It]

8. This is anecdotal but

From what I see, more younger Cuban or Cuban-descended voters (millennials and Gen-Zers) seem to be left leaning voters.

[FM123]

10. Yes, the more younger voters seem to go more left.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/young-americans-embrace-socialism-even-among-miami-cubans/123813/

[flamingdem]

11. I can't believe the Cuban American dinosaurs could decide the election

There are so many new arrivals from Cuba - and Puerto Rico - and they have every reason to vote against Biden.

Trump can only win by cheating.

That's where the problem lies..

[SayItLoud]

12. The tRUMP October surprise will be an invasion of Venezuela; Grenada of 21st Century. nt