Black and Latino men still need to be convinced that Joe Biden represents their interests, civil rights attorney Ben Crump says
Following a playbook that worked for them in 2018, Republicans and Trump have courted these voters by hammering away at socialism. That’s a message which has resonance for voters hailing from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, countries with a complicated relationship to both communism and socialism.
Biden is clearly trying to remedy that. On Tuesday, he visited Florida to court Latinos after a number of polls showed his weakness with the state’s unique mix of pan-Latin American voters. Though he’s ahead overall among Florida Latino voters, Biden’sThe campaign is sensitive about the perceived wariness among Black and Brown men. Reporters were not invited to listen in to the two calls with Harris — one last week, another on Aug.
Florida, a must-win state for Trump, has a sizable population of Republican-leaning Cuban Americans, who wield political power and could account for at least 30 percent of the Latino vote there. They’ve found common cause with other members of the Latin American diaspora fleeing left-wing revolutions in their home countries.
The week after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Trump started running a flurry of ads about law enforcement and crime on Facebook, according to an analysis by New York University’s Online Political Ads Transparency Project. “The Latino vote is a legitimate part of the discussion in Pennsylvania now,” said Matt Barreto, a pollster for the Biden campaign.
The effort by the immigrant youth group will encompass states such as Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.
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