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Topic Title: Biden wants to re-thaw relations with Cuba Topic Summary: He'll have to navigate Florida politics Created On: 11/25/2020 06:39 PM |
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11/25/2020 06:39 PM
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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) https://www.washingtonpost.com...ry.html?outputType=amp |
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11/26/2020 05:54 AM
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Pugs love the gusano vote
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11/26/2020 06:54 AM
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They have been voting Republican for generations, it's time to do what's right with Cuba and quit worrying about the Florida vote. Normal relations will be a massive help for the work-a-day Cuban population.
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11/26/2020 07:02 AM
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They have such a delusional understanding of the island that most of them have never set foot on. Had we normalized relations and allowed American money to follow, their regime would have died decades ago. It's hard to imagine another stubborn fifty year failure.
------------------------- "One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky. |
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11/26/2020 07:04 AM
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Exactly Johnny, well put.
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