Miami Trump supporters fear communism and call president their 'titan'

MIAMI — Hispanic Trump supporters from communist and formerly leftist countries in the Americas gathered at the historic entry point for Cuban refugees in the 1960s on Saturday to cry foul, claiming election fraud and thanking their “titan” leader, President Trump, in the waning days of his mandate.

Trump had an outsize success in historically blue Miami-Dade County, and many political analysts believe it could be permanent. The fear of communism coupled with dismal Democratic Party organizing and outreach to Hispanic voters in the state is believed to have been a major factor.

Voters from Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, and other left-leaning countries are believed to have peeled hundreds of thousands of votes away from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 vote totals, enough to push Trump past the 1-percentage-point margins of the previous several Florida elections, for a decisive Trump win in 2020 by 3.3 points.

“Here, there is no violence,” Cuban expatriate and Vietnam veteran Julio Martinez, 78, told the Washington Examiner in a Spanish-language interview. “We believe in the United States of America, and the violence is for the other countries where I went to kill communists.”

The former mayor of majority-Cuban Hialeah boasted the work of his local GOP party volunteering at early voting centers and registering voters to help Trump win Florida and 81% of his city.

“We are here to give thanks for the four years of Trump,” he added.

Martinez highlighted the president's pre-coronavirus accomplishments regarding the economy and job creation, and he said he would wait “for all investigations to complete” before lending credence to President-elect Joe Biden's Nov. 3 victory.

Biden's vote has been certified, and he will be sworn in on Wednesday.

Most adamant among the dozen or so Trump loyalists eliciting car horns and thumbs-ups from cyclists and joggers was the self-declared “Diva for Trump,” Susy Taylor, 40, an Ecuadorean national dressed in ... (Read more)

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