Is Donald Trump Blowing It with Venezuelan American Voters? | Washington Monthly

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : As a consolation, Trump invited Guaidó to be a guest at his 2020 State of the Union address, which, according to The New York Times, "seemed like a political masterstroke."
57% : But four years later, we saw the birth of the MAGAzuelan voter, as Trump won Doral by 1.4 percentage points, a neck-snapping margin shift of 41.4 points.
56% : Trump won Florida in 2020 by a bigger margin than in 2016.
51% : According to Florida exit polls, Trump won 35 percent of the Latino vote in 2016, then 46 percent in 2020.
51% : Trump, meanwhile, has yet to articulate a clear Venezuelan policy.
49% : The improvement largely came from non-Cuban Latinos, with whom Trump moved from 26 percent in 2016 to 49 percent in 2020.
49% : That's close to Biden's 60 percent support among Latinos in the 2020 election, according to Catalist, and a vast improvement from last month's Pew Research Center poll in which Joe Biden and Trump were tied with Latinos.
48% : In 2020, Trump was able to disqualify Democrats as socialists in the eyes of many Latinos.
45% : In early 2019, Trump and dozens of international leaders recognized opposition figure Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's president.
41% : "Trump saw Venezuela 110 percent through the prism of Florida's electoral votes," said an anonymous "former senior U.S. official" to The New York Times.
40% : How has Trump responded to recent events?
39% : But if Florida becomes close -- and one recent state poll shows Kamala Harris trailing Trump by only two points -- every vote and voting bloc will count.
34% : Moreover, the short-run electoral value of the sanctions to Trump was greater than their political effectiveness in breaking the Venezuelan political stalemate.
23% : As president, beginning in 2017, Trump imposed harsh economic sanctions on the Maduro regime, blocking the government and its oil companies from international credit markets and restricting oil exports.
22% : The assertion lacks supporting evidence, though Trump often exploits the single case of an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant charged with murdering a Georgian nursing student.

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