Its not just about Cuban American voters, its Hispanic voters as well, many of whom would never consider voting for an avowed socialist. Critics say Sanders needs to more strongly disavow Cuba and other authoritarian regimes. While more than two-fifths of Florida Latinos voters favored DeSantis overall, a clear majority of Cuban American voters 57 percent cast their support for the Republican. In 2018, Republican Ron DeSantis narrowly won Floridas governors mansion. However, Democrats hardly have a lock on that vote in battleground Florida, particularly among the nearly 2 million Floridians of Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan origin. According to an Associated Press survey, about a third of Cuban American midterm voters identified as Democrats. In Florida, where Hispanics account for nearly one in every five voters, that skepticism could present a major hurdle for Sanders in the states primary, and for Democrats hoping to win Floridas 29 electoral votes in November. Sanders socialist identification and his willingness to praise leftist regimes have given his Democratic opponents ammunition to question his electability in a state with a large Cuban American population that remains fiercely skeptical of leftist governments. Sanders comments about the Castro regime could play a large role in how he fares in Floridas March 17 primary. This is not about what coups happened in the 1970s and 80s, this is about the future, Buttigieg said. Mayor Pete Buttigieg lamented that the candidates were debating about Cold War-era policies.
Sanders reference to Obama did not sit well with former Vice President Joe Biden, who claimed that his boss never embraced an authoritarian regime, while former South Bend, Ind. support in overthrowing leaders in those countries in the 1970s and 80s. It might be a good idea to be honest of American foreign policy and that is the American government helped overthrow governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Iran, Sanders said in reference to U.S. The Vermont lawmaker said there is a reticence among Americans to look back at Washingtons own history of overthrowing foreign governments and supporting dictators. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it? Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has refused to back down from his comments arguing during Tuesday nights debate in South Carolina that former President Barack Obama had once praised the Castro regimes progress on education and healthcare.
When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Tea Party had nothing to do with his ideology, or that we would rather have Bernie against Donald Trump than Joe Biden, we just want to move the numbers so that the conversation is open on the primaries, just for the sake of optics, it would be great to be able to contrast the ideology of an avowed socialist versus a capitalist. We need to learn from history, but we also need to be aggressive in dismantling structural racism that exists today. Evoking an avowed segregationist is not the best way to make the point that we need to work together and is insensitive.
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