Biden and Trump make their final appeals to crucial voters in Florida

Trump’s speech was very reminiscent of his 2016 rallies, only with different topics. There was his classic vitriol directed at the press, but also long riffs about his impeachment trial and tirades against China over the coronavirus and attacks on Biden.

Trump called for the prosecution of a former Department of Homeland Security staffer, Miles Taylor, who admitted Wednesday the he was behind an anonymous New York Times op-ed in 2018 that was unflattering to the president.

Many of the attendees at the rally had “Latinos for Trump” signs that the campaign had distributed, but Trump only spent a few minutes of the long rally appealing to Hispanic voters.

“Biden’s agenda will devastate the Hispanic American community. He betrayed Hispanic Americans for 47 years. He has been very bad with Hispanic Americans, and what is happening with those polls, we have the highest numbers,” Trump claimed. “We are now, according to the polls, the real polls, we are beating Democrats for the first time ever with Hispanic Americans. And I have always loved them. And I think they have always loved me.”

Trump is not, in fact, leading Biden among Hispanic American voters nationwide or in Florida, according to major surveys. But he has made inroads on Clinton’s high margins.

He also linked Biden to the far left of the Democratic Party, a rhetorical tactic to then try and tie Biden to the socialist regimes in Latin America.

“As long as I am president America will never be a socialist country, and I say it all the time,” Trump said. “This election will decide whether our children will be condemned to the misery of socialism or whether they will inherit the glorious legacy of American freedom.”

Biden has repeatedly responded to Trump’s efforts to portray him as a pawn of the far left by reminding voters that Biden is the Democratic nominee precisely because he ran against, and defeated, candidates who were farther to the left than he in the Democratic presidential primary — most notably Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-identified “democratic socialist.”

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