Wire Services
Signaling the significance of the Sunshine State in the November election, President Donald Trump will spend two days campaigning in Florida this week.
Trump will hold a “Latinos for Trump” roundtable Friday morning in Miami, his campaign announced on Wednesday. The Miami event will come a day after the President holds a rally in Jacksonville.
Trump on Wednesday also announced his administration imposed new restrictions on travel to Cuba and initiated new curbs on the importation of rum and tobacco from the island nation.
Trump announced the latest restrictions on Cuba at a White House event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1980 Mariel boatlift, which brought 120,000 Cubans to Miami, and honoring Bay of Pigs veterans.
“Today, we reaffirm our ironclad solidarity with the Cuban people and our eternal conviction that freedom will prevail over the sinister forces of communism and evil of many different forms,” the President said at the event, where he was joined by Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart.
The new restrictions would ban U.S. travelers from staying at hotels owned by the Cuban government.
Trump’s move is a continuation of his efforts to dismantle many aspects of a détente with Cuba struck by his Democratic predecessor, former President Barack Obama.
The announcement about the Cuba crackdown and Friday’s Miami meeting are Trump’s latest efforts to court Hispanic voters in Florida, a battleground state considered crucial for a White House victory.
While Trump — who captured Florida’s 29 electoral votes four years ago — is seeking support from Cuban-Americans, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has focused heavily on Puerto Rican voters in Central Florida and elsewhere in the state.
Hispanics are viewed as a critical sector of the nearly 14 million registered voters in Florida. Trump could also curry favor with Cuban-American voters with his upcoming selection to replace the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Federal appeals court Judge Barbara Lagoa, the daughter of Cuban exiles, is on Trump’s short list for the vacancy.
Lagoa, who grew up in Miami-Dade County, serves on the 11th U.S. District Court of Appeals, after Trump appointed her to the Atlanta-based court. Lagoa also briefly served on the Florida Supreme Court, where she was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Trump ally.
3 comments
Sonja Fitch
September 23, 2020 at 3:51 pm
Latinos for Trump is a damn oxymoron! Trump does not give two scoops of shit about Latinos! Vote Blue! Vote Democrat up and down ballot!
James Robert Miles
September 23, 2020 at 6:10 pm
Just look how A-hole treated Puerto Rico if you need proof. The fraudster strikes again! DUMP TRUMP 2020!
Gail
September 24, 2020 at 1:36 am
Republican / Democrat Positions: Still Undecided???
1. Free Healthcare for Illegal aliens, DACA, TPS recipients & their families. Taxpayer-funded with one estimate at $52 trillion.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
2. Citizenship for 20 to 50 million illegal aliens, DACA, TPS recipients, and their families with a cost of billions to taxpayers.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
3. De-fund Police. Biden is doing his best to walk this back. In the Senate (so there’s a record), Kamala Harris called it “re-imagine law enforcement.” Biden recently stated he was in favor, quote “redirecting law enforcement funds.” If Biden/Harris is elected, you know what will happen.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
4. Biden has stated he will raise taxes to over 71 trillion. With this Democrat platform, he will have to.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans NO TAX INCREASES / TAX CUTS.
5. Sanctuary Cities & States. Biden & Harris supports sanctuary cities.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
6. Coal / Fracking: I don’t understand how voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, West Virginia can even consider voting for Biden? You do realize that as soon as Biden/Harris takes office. Fracking, Coal Mining jobs are long gone You’re voting for your own unemployment in these states people. The Democrat Governors in these states know this. Sacrifice jobs of their citizens for a Biden Presidency.
7. Immediately end all deportations of illegal aliens, Bernie’s website calls it a “moratorium” on deportations.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
8. Reparations for the race’s harmed by Caucasians. Biden & Kamala Harris committed to Al Sharpton to support Sheila Jackson Lee’s reparations bill in the House. Basically, a tax will be levied on all people of Caucasian descent in America. The funds distributed to African Americans. (you can’t make this stuff up)
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
9, De-fund & terminate border patrol & ICE. Funds redistributed to other programs.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
10. The 2nd Amendment will be under attack even more under Biden. Biden stated, “Beto O’Rourke will be his gun Czar,” “Hel yeah I’m coming for your guns.”
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
11. Medicare for all: Ending of all private / employer-based health care Feds run everything. This is Kamala Harris’s baby. Kiss goodbye to your healthcare plan if Biden/Harris is elected. Taxpayer-funded at a cost of trillions.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
12. Free college for all, including illegal aliens & non-citizens Bernie Sanders’s plan adopted. (taxpayer-funded with estimates in the billions).
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
13. Immediately decriminalize all illegal entry into our country. So no need for the Border Patrol.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
14. Open Borders.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
15. President Trump has stated repeatedly he will protect social security, medicare, and pre-existing conditions. His last rally in Swanton, he repeated this once again. This is a favorite scare tactic of the left.
The Democrats want to sell us that Biden is a “centrists.” Biden has been a liberal democrat his entire career. How else could he be Obamas VP? and why would he pick a socialist in Kamala Harris? Joe’s “centrist” policies include free health care for illegal aliens, trillions in taxes on the middle class, and once again, like his hero Obama, ship our jobs overseas and flooding our country with illegal aliens.
Comments are closed.