Biden's Florida Hispanic problem

Washington Examiner:

One does not have to walk far from the outdoor coffee window at Versailles Restaurant in the heart of Little Havana to hear impassioned words about politics, socialism, and Cuba.

Cuban American voters often weigh which candidate has the tougher stance on the communist country before casting their ballot in a state where each of the last four presidential elections was decided by less than 1% of the vote.

“Biden is no good, leftist, communist, garbage,” Cuban American Osvalda Hernandez, 55, told the Washington Examiner in a Spanish-language interview in a tone of voice that could best be described as shouting.

In between sips of oil-black Cuban coffee from a small Styrofoam cup in one hand, and with a surgical mask in the other, Hernandez was certain that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden had no chance of winning Florida.

“Trump is the best in the United States, very good, very tough,” the Cuban-born registered Republican said of the president’s hard stance on Cuba. “Communist I am not.”

Just a few feet away from the normally crowded window in pre-coronavirus times stood Carl Franz Muller, director of operations for Miami-Dade Cuban-American Democrats.

“He’s completely wrong,” said Muller, 55, sweating in a tan guayabera, the traditional Cuban dress shirt with four large pockets, worn untucked. “The Cuban American vote is about 50-50, maybe 55-45 in favor of Democrats.”

He continued, “Biden is a stable leader who the American people have confidence in.”

Muller said Obama-era policies of engagement with Cuba helped his family and others by allowing more remittances to small-scale entrepreneurs.

Arguments by Cuba hard-liners that the money sent to families goes straight to government coffers did not consider the circular black-market economy that many Cubans survive on, he said.

He also said that Biden’s Cuba stance was balanced in the right way.

“He’s hard on the government, but open to the people, helping the civil society but very critical of the government,” he said.

Florida political commentator and University of South Florida professor Susan MacManus told the Washington Examiner it’s too early to tell which way Florida will go, but perceptions that Joe Biden is soft on socialism may hurt him with Hispanic voters from countries including Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and to a lesser extent, Colombia.

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I don't get how anyone who has fled socialism could support Democrats period.  Obama's deal with Cuba was terrible for Cubans who remain in that socialist hell hole.  Trump has also been much tougher on Venezuelan's socialist hell hole. 

Suggesting that Biden is a stable leader at this point also comes across as unrealistic.  Biden has trouble remembering the end of sentences he starts.