President Donald Trump made it to the critical battleground state of Florida on Friday for a one-day trip to raise campaign cash and tend to issues of high interest there for his base supporters.
Trump opened his Florida visit at U.S. Southern Command, where he got a briefing and spoke about U.S. counternarcotics operations.
He also attended a roundtable in nearby Doral to show support for Venezuelan expatriates seeking the ouster of Nicholas Maduro.
At the campaign-organized event focusing on Venezuela, Trump criticized former President Barack Obama’s efforts to lift some sanctions against Cuba and warned that the presumptive Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, would take a similar approach and even embrace socialism domestically.
Trump reversed some but not all of Obama’s efforts to normalize relations with Cuba, an ally of the Maduro regime.
“Republicans are the party of freedom and Democrats are the party of socialism and worse,” Trump said.
Despite the risks, the Trump campaign believes it needs to return to the road, both to animate the president, who draws energy from his crowds, and to inject life into a campaign that’s facing a strong challenge from Biden.
On Friday, Biden pointed to Florida’s rising coronavirus cases, saying, “It is clear that Trump’s response – ignore, blame others, and distract – has come at the expense of Florida families.”
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