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Trump Says US Could Be ‘Venezuela on Steroids’ If He Loses to Biden
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1:28Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump tried on Friday to chip away at his Democratic rival's support among Hispanic voters in Florida, who could determine the election outcome in this crucial battleground state.
"Joe Biden betrayed Hispanic Americans and I'm fighting for you," Trump said at a "Latinos for Trump" roundtable at his golf club in Doral, where he spent the night after a rally in Jacksonville. It's part of a two-day campaign swing that is ticking off boxes, both geographically and with key constituencies.
The president spent a large part of his speech blasting his rival and warning if Biden and the Democrats are elected, the U.S. could turn into Venezuela.
"They literally don't have water," Trump said of Venezuela. "That country is a total disaster."
"You know it could happen here," he said. "Because if you look at some of these people that you see with the storefronts and breaking down and the riots and everything that's going on, it's the same ideology."
Trump will also be visiting Atlanta on Friday for an event on black economic empowerment as he tries to chip away at Democrats' overwhelming advantage with African American voters in Georgia, another competitive state.
Trump's campaign, which has been struggling to make headway against Biden, is growing increasingly confident that his support is growing among Latinos, including in Florida, one of the most competitive 2020 battlegrounds, where elections are often won by a single percentage point.
An NBC-Marist poll of Florida voters released earlier this month found Latinos in the state about evenly divided between Biden and Trump — a major change from the same poll in 2016, when Democrat Hillary Clinton led Trump by a 59% to 36% margin. But a Monmouth University poll also conducted this month found Biden well ahead of Trump among Latino voters in the state, 58% to 32%.
Hispanic voters in Florida tend to be somewhat more Republican-leaning than Hispanic voters nationwide because of the state's Cuban American population, which Trump worked to appeal to in his remarks.
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