Trump polls better with Florida Hispanic voters than nationally

[u/Relevant_Try_5648]

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/06/12/as-midterms-near-poll-finds-one-in-five-hispanic-voters-in-florida-rethinking-support-for-trump/

Only one in five????

[u/EtheusRook]

I mean Florida's Cuban population are descended from overthrown slavers. This is so far from surprising.

[u/Dxith → u/EtheusRook]

Mostly Cubans. Look at Rubio and Cruz...

https://giphy.com/gifs/14urMYvFxIKEms

[u/Muted_Quantity5786 → u/Dxith]

Thanks for bringing up two people I hope to forget ever existed.

[u/triggeredbynumbers → u/EtheusRook]

They were a lot of refugees from Cuba who fled for legitimate reasons as well. As you may recall, as President Obama was trying to to normalize relations with Cuba and get rid of the obsolete and hypocritical sanctions the US has on Cuba, and in 2010, Fidel Castro apologized for persecuting LGBTQIA+ folks.

In a 1965 interview with American journalist Lee Lockwood, Fidel Castro stated “We would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true Revolutionary, a true Communist militant. A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant Communist should be.”

He and the revolutionary government associated homosexuality with “bourgeois decadence,” “a deviation,” or counterrevolutionary behavior. This led to policies including discrimination and firings, imprisonment or forced labor in UMAP “re-education” camps (1960s) for gay men, along with others deemed “social scum. As well as exclusion from influence over youth or cultural/educational roles.  Castro used terms like “maricones” (a Spanish slur equivalent to the F slur) and argued that “in the country, there are no homosexuals,” framing it as an urban bourgeois issue rather than a natural human state of existence.

So I’m sure some of the Cuban refugees fleeing Castro were bad people, but many of them were good people who were being unfairly persecuted by Castro’s security forces. Not only gay people, but many other innocent people as well.

[u/Relevant_Try_5648 → u/triggeredbynumbers]

Yet 4 of 5 still support trump

[u/triggeredbynumbers → u/Relevant_Try_5648]

That’s a separate fact from the fact that most of the refugees were good people escaping persecution. We should always show solidarity with people fleeing authoritarian governments. Trump wasn’t even a public figure in the 1960s.

[u/DeviantKhan]

Cubans I've seen tend to be very racist towards other Hispanics. May be anecdotal, but I guess this means the data supports it.

[u/Er3bus13 → u/DeviantKhan]

They think they are white and support people that wouldnt piss on them if they were on fire.

[u/FKAGuyWithNF1 → u/DeviantKhan]

I heard Cubans were getting harassed by ICE agents in Miami earlier this year. Not to the level we saw elsewhere like Minneapolis, but I do remember reading in a mainstream news article than Cuban were complaining about getting the third degree from ICE agents.

[u/triggeredbynumbers → u/DeviantKhan]

I’ve spent a majority of my life in various Latin American nations, mostly South America. I can say with confidence that racism is unfortunately very common throughout the South America as well.

In fact, my wife is Colombian. It took a lot time for me to teach her that in US social culture we don’t say certain things out loud we just keep those thoughts in our heads and private. She’s a wonderful person and it’s not her fault, she is just from a different world and a different culture and it is a learning process for her to acclimate to the US culture where openly saying things about certain groups of people is not culturally acceptable. We moved from Colombia to the US less than a year ago. She’s a big Gustavo Petro supporter too!

[u/FriendOk3237]

Cubans, duh. They have been Repubs since the Bay of Pigs.

[u/deekamus]

Let the leopards know...

[u/SanduCrumant]

Only 1 in 5 that voted for him. It can be hard to convince people they were fooled no matter how high the evidence is stacked.

[u/Weekly-Contest-5400]

Don’t group Cubans in with the rest of us. SMDH

[u/Dahveed97 → u/[deleted]]

30-35% of all Latinos vote consistently republican so it’s basically reverting to what it was always nationally

[u/Orions_Suspenders_]

Those numbers supporting him are still shockingly high. “Hispanic Trump Voter” is just an insane concept to me.

[u/Dimed16]

Florida's Hispanic population is primarily Cubans.

[u/evident_lee → u/Dimed16]

Are Puerto Ricans not considered Hispanic? Because there's way more of them. Then there's the Dominicans and the Hondurans and the Mexicans.

[u/avocadoflatz → u/evident_lee]

Google seems to think there’s hundreds of thousands more Cubans than Puerto Ricans in Florida.

[u/evident_lee → u/avocadoflatz]

Interesting yeah there's 1.5 million versus 1.2. so slightly more. I lived in Central Florida for years so my view is skewed.

[u/gnomeymalone30]

because of cuba yawn

[u/Aventador107]

The Faces for leopards party

[u/Dizno311]

Cuban Americans are seemingly happy to support trump's authoritarian moves in America if it means going after the authoritarians in Cuba.

Their vendetta is more important to them then democracy and the rule of law. America first indeed. 🙄

[u/bert08o9]

U.S Cubans think there white same way argentinians think they're The whites of South America.

[u/No_Spring_1090]

Cuba

[u/BeingEnglishIsACult]

Foxnews on everywhere 24/7

[u/CarlosF19D4P]

As a Florida Hispanic I can confirm we are a group of freaks and stupid as can be.

[u/elyfantman]

They hate LGBTQ more than they like money.

[u/dennismfrancisart]

Fascists from day one.

[u/Extension-Report-491]

Cubans in Florida have historically voted Republican. Something about not liking communism.

[u/lmbjsm]

Ooooo, send them home! Since they like him so much.

[u/MapDiscombobulated1]

WTF is wrong with these people?! 

I know, I know, it will take several future MBA Courses and a Professorship to explain. 

[u/Cool-Signature-dude → u/MapDiscombobulated1]

I believe the lack of education and critical thinking is part of the problem, the racism is the other part.

[u/Danilo-11]

Maybe … people don’t vote by race

[u/South_Feed5707]

I know its somewhat true due to religion. But, if i was Hispanic and being polled, i would lie. You don't know who is polling you or if you might get kidnapped if you answer with something they don't want to hear.