New poll finds majority of Miami Cuban Americans support Trump, strong sanctions against Castro dictatorship

According to a just-released FIU poll, the majority of Cuban Americans in South Florida continue to fall on the conservative side of the political spectrum. Not only to they support Trump, support for sanctions against Cuba’s socialist dictatorship continues to increase.

It looks like that “generational shift” towards becoming more liberal and tolerant of socialism among Cuban Americans we’ve been promised since the 1970s is delayed once again.

Via Florida International University:

FIU Cuba Poll: Most Cuban Americans support President Trump and his policies, will vote to re-elect him

A majority of Cuban Americans support President Donald Trump and plan to vote for him in November, according to the latest FIU Cuba Poll.

They gave Trump high marks on his handling of key national issues such as the COVID-19 crisis, immigration, health care, Cuba policy, China policy and the economy, and mixed but still supportive reviews on his handling of race relations and national protests. The Cuba Poll, which is the longest-running research project measuring Cuban American public opinion, also found increased support for isolationist policies and for the U.S. embargo on Cuba.

“Cubans remain a majority Republican ethnic group and like the majority of Republicans throughout the country, they are supportive of President Trump and his administration’s approach to governing,” said Guillermo Grenier, the principal investigator on the project and chair of the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies in theSteven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, the primary sponsor of the poll. “He receives high marks on handling all of the measured key national issues as well as his handling of Cuba policy and will receive a strong majority of the Cuban-American vote on Election Day.”

A total of 1,002 Cuban Americans were polled from July 7 to Aug. 17. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percent. The poll was conducted by Grenier and Qing Lai, associate professor of sociology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies.

Support for the embargo has fluctuated over the past three decades. The 2020 poll found 60 percent of Cuban Americans support the policy, continuing an upward trend seen initially in the 2018 poll. This is the highest level of support since 2007. Younger Cuban Americans are more likely to oppose the embargo (46 percent) as are Cuban Americans who were not born in Cuba (50 percent) and registered Democrats (72 percent).  The general support for the embargo is expressed simultaneously with the view, by 71 percent of the population, that the embargo has not been an effective policy.

“There is strong support to give antagonism a chance,” Grenier said. “The political narrative encouraging engagement has been replaced by one encouraging isolation of Cuba. This is a national narrative and Cubans are more sensitive to it than other groups.”

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3 thoughts on “New poll finds majority of Miami Cuban Americans support Trump, strong sanctions against Castro dictatorship”

  1. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that dignity, self-respect, justice and truth are not and should not be dependent on when one was born. Those things are just what they are, period.

  2. If we can hang on and get Trump reelected, in the 2024 elections there won’t be embargo anymore because the tyranny is running on its last few resources. They are giving it all in this effort to defeat Trump because they know he means it and he will get them out of power. So for them it’s a life and death effort.

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