In the days after the historic uprisings, Cuba has emerged as a central focus among Republican presidential contenders who have elevated the calls for democracy on the island to a top-tier issue in the 2024 shadow primary
But Florida, a must-win state for Republican presidential candidates, remains the center of gravity for Cuban policy and politics. It’s a vestige of the sizable Cuban American population in Miami-Dade County, as well as Hispanics with roots in other Latin American countries where socialism is anathema to many exiles and immigrants.
That surge surprised Democrats, who failed to heed the voices in the Florida party warning about the powerful influence of the issue of socialism on the Latino electorate in the state — a GOP message that DeSantis test-drove in his 2018 win in the gubernatorial race against progressive Andrew Gillum.
Socialism was such a potent issue in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary in Florida that Unite The Country issued a mailer that referred obliquely to sympathetic comments Sen. Bernie Sanders made about Cuba. “We don’t need another revolution,” the mailer read.
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