Trump’s courtship of Florida Latinos continues Friday with an event in Miami
President Donald Trump will meet Friday with Hispanic voters in the Miami area, according to his campaign.
After holding a political rally in Jacksonville Thursday night, the president will travel to Miami-Dade County, where he will participate in a Latinos for Trump roundtable, his campaign announced Wednesday. The campaign did not specify a location for the 10 a.m. event.
Trump’s appearance continues his aggressive courtship of Hispanic voters in Miami-Dade, where a recent Bendixen & Amandi International poll found the president splitting the Latino vote with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Statewide polls have found Biden leading Trump with Hispanic voters, but with less support than what 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had when she lost Florida to Trump by 112,000 votes.
Trump likely must be victorious in Florida again this November to win reelection.
Trump’s support among Florida’s Hispanic community has been bolstered by his improved standing with Cuban-American voters. And on Wednesday, while honoring veterans of the CIA-backed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba at the White House, Trump said that support has surprised his critics and the press.
“They don’t know what’s happening,” he said. “I guess they didn’t know I loved you. They’re all shocked.”
Trump’s visit to Miami also comes as he considers Hialeah native Barbara Lagoa as his nominee to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. And it coincides with the release Thursday of the first of nearly 5 million domestic mail ballots in the state.
