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The Latino vote was vital to Donald Trump achieving a far more substantial victory over Joe Biden than he did four years ago against
Hillary Clinton
in Florida.
The Republican beat the Democrat by more than 350,000 votes and won
51.3% of popular support in the Sunshine State, compared to 47.9% for
the Democrat.
And the key was precisely in
Miami-Dade County
, where Trump greatly improved his 2016 results thanks to his frequent forays into the state and the great depth of his campaign,
accusing Joe Biden of "socialist" and "communist. "
and reactivating in passing the worst fears of the Cuban-American community (and also of the Venezuelan and Central American immigrants that the census has diversified in recent years).
Florida's 29 electoral votes were in a way Trump's lifeline on the East Coast: Without the trophy of the prized "pendulum" state (awarded to
Barack Obama
in 2008 and 2012), the Republican would have had many more to go. raise the battle on a national scale and advance towards the 270 that are needed to proclaim himself the winner of the presidential elections.
"Florida is very important,"
Trump himself stressed during an appearance at the Republican Party headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on election night.
"They (the Democrats) spent millions of dollars in the state. But the people of Florida know that I love them, and they love me too."
Hundreds of Cubans rushed to celebrate Trump's victory on Calle Ocho in Little Havana
, even before the polls closed.
The presence of sympathizers of the president - aboard station wagons and with posters saying "No to communism, no to socialism, yes to capitalism" - were frequent in the state's electoral colleges, where, however, there were no notable incidents.
With Trump's comfortable victory in the interior and in the north of the state the Democrats counted in advance.
What they did not foresee was the loss of up to 200,000 "changing" votes
, the vast majority of them precisely in Miami-Dade, the most populous and influential county, where Hillary Clinton managed to score an advantage of more than ten points in 2016 ( despite losing the state as a whole by just 1.2%).
The turn of the Latino vote and the lack of enthusiasm of the black vote
(Miami-Dade also has a large Haitian and Caribbean community) were two of the causes of Biden's "puncture", criticized for not having put the meat on the grill of the sunshine state.
On the last day of the campaign, it was former President Obama who traveled to Miami to defend the credentials of his former vice president and ensure that he has not been having coffee with the Castros.
Since 1924, no Republican candidate has managed to be president without winning in Florida.
That was an asset that Donald Trump took into account, apart from his personal link with the state and his knowledge of the terrain from his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
Trump actually moved his official place of residence from Manhattan to Palm Beach last year and
has come from declaring that he considers Florida his true home.
In 2016, Trump did not put the emphasis on the Latino vote (17% of the census) but rather focused primarily on winning the white vote.
His popularity has been on the rise among the Cuban-American community since he decided to reverse the normalization of relations with the
"communist government of Cuba."
"Deep down, the 'Nicaraguans', Venezuelans and Cubans face the same problem in all our countries, which is communism," declared the Republican candidate for mayor of Miami,
Roberto Bovo
, a fervent Trump admirer.
Less fortunate was Bovo himself at the polls, defeated by Democrat
Daniella Levine Cava, the
first mayor in Miami-Dade history.
It was the only sweet counterpoint to the night the Democrats had in Florida.
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