KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The presidential election is just two days away.
Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, returned to Central Florida on Saturday to drum up support.
Jill Biden and others made a direct appeal to Osceola County’s large Puerto Rican community.
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It was an attempt to energize their base in one of the country’s battleground counties in a battleground state.
It was clear as soon as Jill Biden and surrogates took the stage that Saturday’s event was the Biden campaign’s opportunity to keep its predominantly Latino volunteer base in Osceola County energized.
Chef Jose Andres, and a Puerto Rican woman who fled the island after Hurricane Maria, teed up Jill Biden to ask the community why they should trust President Donald Trump to do any more for the island than he already has.
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“If Donald Trump would love Latinos, he would not be trying to deport right now Cubans and Venezuelans that they came to America, hoping that somebody would open them a door,” Andres said.
The Trump campaign on Saturday and Sunday said enough Latinos are breaking away from the Democrats over the economy to make them feel confident in a win in the swing counties of Florida.
“He’s performing remarkably well among Hispanic and African American voters,” said Rudy Giuliani. “And everything we can tell in polling, he’s maybe triple where he was last time.”
Both of the campaigns believe the Latino vote will break in their favor. But analysts said that’s just not clear yet because of different subgroups and priorities.
Cox Media Group
