Joe Biden devoted an entire day to talking about the management of the coronavirus by Donald Trump. The Democratic candidate visited the State of Florida on Tuesday, a decisive region for the victory in the elections of the next day 3, and in two meetings in Broward County he said that the Government did not prevent the covid-19 from proceeding at a stride. in the United States. “This president learned in January, when the intelligence agencies informed him in detail, that it was an extremely dangerous and communicable disease,” he said. Biden was with a group of retirees in an asylum and then held a small rally, where his supporters stayed in their cars.
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Hours earlier, Trump had also been in Florida and attacked him by calling him a “socialist” and saying that the Democrat would seek to favor the regimes in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Despite the president’s offensive — and questions appellants of Hispanic people on the peninsula about the Democrat’s relationship with Latin American governments, Biden avoided mentioning the subject. Latinos make up 20% of Florida’s electorate, which in recent years has become a crucial sector for winning elections. Most come from countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
Interpersonal distance has been a constant in acts organized for the Democratic campaign. In Pembroke Pines, a community north of Miami, the candidate arrived at a retirement home and spoke to a small group of people about the need to strengthen health through the Accessible Health Act, which he himself made when he was vice President of the country, in the government of Barack Obama. Outside the institution, a handful of supporters – all in masks – approached to greet Biden, but they only saw him pass for a few seconds. Toby Milman, a 79-year-old nurse, wanted to speak with a candidate about his concern about the advancement of the coronavirus. “We have big problems, I’ve never seen anything like this in this country, and I hope that the issue of the virus doesn’t get worse and that we can soon leave it behind”, he commented while pointing to his mask.
Afterwards, Biden went to Miramar, a community with an important population of Afro-Caribbean – 300,000 Jamaicans – and African-Americans, where he also shared his concern about the management of the pandemic under the Trump administration. “The more time he spends in the presidency, the more reckless he becomes. Three more weeks and this madness will end ”, he said to the public gathered at this peculiar rally, where people parked their cars in a park and, without leaving their vehicles, listened to the candidate’s speech, preserving the safety distance. Florida has been one of the states most affected by the virus so far, with 736,000 confirmed cases and 15,400 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. “A lot of people are no longer here because of his negligence,” added Biden, referring to Trump.
The Democrat’s campaign made an almost surgical selection of the sectors that the candidate must serve. This is the third time the Democrat has visited Florida in less than a month. On September 15 he was in Kissimmee, a region with a large population of Puerto Ricans, near Orlando; on October 5 he traveled to Little Havana and Little Haiti, two communities in Miami where Cubans and Haitians settled. “If we win in Florida, it’s settled,” he mentioned at his rally. The applause for this sentence was replaced by a honk. On Thursday, Trump and his deputy, Mike Pence, will hold some rallies in Miami, continuing their fight to win the southern state’s votes, as the early face-to-face vote in Florida begins next Monday, October 19. .
The attention that Florida receives from candidates less than three weeks from the elections is as significant as its importance on election night: it is the largest of the so-called pendulum states, with 29 of 270 votes from the Electoral College that any candidate needs to become president of the United States. Hispanics have become a demographic group of special political interest, given the growth of immigrant communities in this region in recent decades. Biden fights for the Hispanic vote in Florida and enlisted the help of Latin stars in his rallies, as well as personalized and geolocalized ads with accents according to the Latin American fan on the peninsula, although on Tuesday they were not the flagship of the campaign.
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