Cuba has socialized medicine. I don't think the ACA meant all that much to the people in relation to a lifestyle that improves their financial status.
The Democratic party is generous to a fault. The party likes public health to be stable without these ridiculous incidents that we are seeing in the USA today under Trump's indifference. To that end, the Democrats focus on providing help to people, but, with immigrants like those from Cuba, they are more interested in work and wealth. So, while the Dems focus on public health and food insecurity they also have to include job training and ethnic fairness in hiring.
The Dems need to get used to the idea of knowing the people and their dreams, not simply knowing their needs. Culture to Cuban men is very important and being a family provider is a point of respect.
Get to know them, not just their need.
By Nora Gamez Torres
...But Trump never really stopped campaigning in Florida. (click here) For years now, the Democrats have not been able to match the strong presence of the Republican Party in the community, which has given many Cuban Americans “an identity,” Florida International University professor Guillermo Grenier wrote in a two-part analysis of the Cuban vote. He is the director of the FIU poll that every two years surveys the opinions of Cuban-American voters residing in Miami-Dade....
...or many years, Democrats assumed that as older Cuban exiles were being replaced by new Cuban arrivals and younger voters, Cuban Americans would become less Republican. The 2020 presidential election was a surprise: The FIU 2020 poll found that many Cuban immigrants coming after 2010 had been registering Republican and becoming strong Trump supporters.
“We ran an innovative grassroots and advertising effort that directly engaged newer Cuban arrivals — who had been largely ignored by both parties — as well as young U.S.-born Cuban Americans in ways that were culturally relevant to them and different than how you’d engage my abuelos’ generation,” said Sopo, a Miami native who was one of the architects of the messaging targeting Hispanics in Florida.
The campaign ran a Spanish video ad featuring popular Cuban actress Susana Pérez, who is better known among Cubans who came to U.S. after 1980. Another radio ad with fictional characters “Marita y Yesenia” mimics the speaking style and slang used by recent arrivals.
Most observers agree that there is no single issue that could explain why most Cuban Americans mobilized so forcefully this year to support the president.
Take Hialeah, a working-class city with the most Obamacare enrollees in the nation and where many recently arrived Cubans live. The Trump administration asked the courts to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act. Yet, the Democratic Party was unable to exploit this to its advantage, and Trump grew his share of the vote by 18 points in the city, compared to 2016, beating Biden 67% to 32.5%, according to Sopo’s analysis....
...“We built a new conservative coalition in South Florida consisting of Cubans, Colombians, Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in Miami-Dade County,” Sopo wrote in a memo obtained by the Miami Herald. ‘This netted approximately 255,657 additional votes for President Trump in Miami-Dade in 2020, which accounted for around 69% of his 371,686-vote victory over Joe Biden in Florida.”...
