President Trump Seeking To Oust Cuban-American Member Of Congress; Exacting Revenge More Important Than Number Of Cuban-Americans In Congress?
/Punchbowl News
Los Angeles, California
17 March 2021
“Max Miller, a former White House aide to Donald Trump, is running in a primary against Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who supported impeaching the 45th president. Gonzalez is a well-liked former Ohio State football star who played in the NFL and later graduated from Stanford Business School.”
From Wikipedia: “Gonzalez's Cuban-American father immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba after Fidel Castro took power.”
Members of the United States Congress identifying as of Cuban descent:
United States Senate
The Honorable Ted Cruz (R- Texas)
The Honorable Marco Rubio (R- Florida)
The Honorable Robert Menendez (D- New Jersey)
United States House of Representatives
The Honorable Albio Sires (New Jersey; D- 8th)
The Honorable Alex Mooney (West Virginia; R- 2nd)
The Honorable Anthony E. González (Ohio; R- 16th)
The Honorable Mario Díaz-Balart (Florida; R-25th)
The Honorable Carlos Gimenez (Florida; R- 26th)
The Honorable Maria Elvira Salazar (Florida; R- 27th)
The Honorable Nicole Malliotakis (New York; R- 11th)
The Biden Administration will remain concerned about the 435-member United States House of Representatives where the Democratic Party has a nine-seat majority in the 117th United States Congress.
The 2020 Census is expected to deliver to Florida two (2) additional seats in the United States House of Representatives- which increases the electoral prominence of the state in the 2022 and 2024 elections (24 votes of the required 270 votes for victory in the Electoral College).
The state legislature in Florida is controlled by Republican Party. In 2021, the Florida Senate (24- R and 16- D) and the Florida House of Representatives (78- R and 42- D) will expectantly seek to craft favorably the two new districts for the United States House of Representatives and recraft existing districts to lessen the number of Democrats. There will likely too be court challenges.
One result will be current Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Florida will tact right, meaning against Biden Administration Republic of Cuba initiatives in their primaries or general election.
There will also be Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate from other states who will oppose perceived lessening of pressures upon the Republic of Cuba.
What some advocates will promote as a vote of legislative courage others will decry as a shortcut to the unemployment line.
Efforts to request the Biden Administration suspend Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 (known as “Libertad Act”) made operational on 2 May 2019 by the Trump Administration risks antagonizing an important constituency in Florida and conflicting with President Biden’s appreciation of not interrupting the judicial process from his tenure as Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (1987-1995).
There have been thirty-three lawsuits filed since 2019 and some are at Courts of Appeals. Title III authorizes lawsuits in United States District Courts against companies and individuals who are using a certified claim or non-certified claim where the owner of the certified claim or non-certified claim has not received compensation from the Republic of Cuba or from a third-party who is using (“trafficking”) the asset.
And there are the many unknowns which can influence the 2022 and 2024 elections in Florida and other states: H.E. Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela, is removed from office. H.E. Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, is removed from office. The government of the Republic of Cuba decides to robustly engage with the Biden Administration; the 5,913 certified claims are resolved.
The Biden Administration and Democratic Party will continue to appease the State of Florida and its 2020 population of 21.48 million residents (14.5 million registered voters) where the Republican Party has 5,219,015 and the Democratic Party has 5,335,965; and 3,790,478 have no party affiliation. In the 2020 Presidential Election, Florida voted 51.2% Republican to 47.9% Democratic; in 2016, 49.0% Republican to 47.8% Democratic; in 2012, 50.0% Democratic to 49.1% Republican; and in 2008, 51.0% Democratic to 48.2% Republican. That data does not suggest a red state.
Neither the Biden Administration nor the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington DC will abandon Florida and policies relating to the Republic of Cuba will reflect the electoral realities of Florida.
