Biden wants to re-thaw relations with Cuba. He'll have to navigate Florida politics.
MIAMI - Stirred by breathless warnings of a socialist menace, Cuban Americans turned out for President Trump in massive numbers. Now those voters are presenting a new challenge for President-elect Joe Biden: How to reembrace the historic Obama-era opening with communist Cuba without ceding Florida to the Republicans in 2024.
On few countries is U.S. foreign policy driven more by domestic politics than Cuba and, to a lesser degree, Venezuela. Exiles and Americans of Cuban and Venezuelan descent who harbor deep antipathy for the governments in those leftist police states helped Trump win this key swing state this month. Trump's net gains in South Florida's Cuban community alone, experts say, accounted for as much as a third of the 372,000 votes that cost Biden the state... (continues)
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