Sunshine Sentinel

As Joe Biden travels to Florida on Thursday, here are three critical questions that he should be asked.

Are you the “big guy”? If not, who is?

National mainstream media outlets continue to punt on the most explosive story of the entire campaign, with willing assistance in suppression of the story from the leftist oligarchs of Big Tech. But perhaps local Florida media can do the job of real journalism? Both direct and circumstantial evidence point to Joe Biden as the “big guy” receiving 10% of a dirty money deal between the Biden Cartel and the Chinese Communist Party. If Joe denies being the “big guy,” then the immediate follow-up should be: then tell America who is? No one else makes sense, as there is no other powerful figure in Hunter Biden’s orbit that he could leverage into many millions of dollars to the Chinese Communist Party.

How can Florida’s hospitality industry survive a Biden national shutdown?

As the Wall Street Journal correctly noted, Joe Biden is the “shutdown” candidate. When ABC’s David Muir pressed Biden on the issue of a national shutdown, Biden was, for once, crystal clear in his response: “I would shut it down.” Florida’s economy absolutely cannot handle another shutdown. In the spring, at the time of the most stringent lockdown measures, the key tourism industry of Florida was losing $1 Billion every single week, according to the US Travel Association.  That kind of economic carnage cannot be revisited. Instead, the Sunshine State represents a model for the rest of America on how to reopen aggressively and safely. Thanks to the strong leadership of Governor DeSantis, life in Florida largely returns to normal, and the economic benefits are tangible and substantial.

But with Joe Biden in the White House, the shutdown threat would hang over our society like the Sword of Damocles. The national damage from another shutdown would be catastrophic everywhere, but especially so in tourism-heavy Florida. Thankfully, President Trump takes precisely the opposite approach. Even after contracting the virus himself, he insists that we must not live in fear, we must not let the virus dominate our lives. The risks are real and the China Virus should be taken seriously, but we can mitigate risks sensibly and American medicine continues to excel at treatments and therapeutics. President Trump emphatically declares that there will be no shutdowns -- not for Florida, not for anywhere in America.  

Why do you coddle Latin American dictators?

Joe Biden represents a retreat backward to the policies of his administration that normalized the brutal military dictatorship of Cuba. That junta, in turn, also supports the thuggish tyranny of Maduro in Venezuela. In a recent interview with CBS News, Biden affirmed that “in large part, I would go back” to the policies of recognizing the Havana regime.

But for Floridians of Cuban and Venezuelan descent know all too well the evil of the governments of their ancestral homelands. Biden’s insistence on normalizing these dictatorial powers presents a big hurdle for Biden in Florida. Even Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez criticized the Obama-Biden’s Cuba policy, calling it a “compromise on bedrock U.S. values.” Regarding Venezuela, Florida Senator Marco Rubio reminded voters that the Obama-Biden administration “opposed any sanctions” against Nicolas Maduro’s government.

This softness toward Havana and Caracas drives part of Biden’s big Hispanic problem in polling, as a recent NBC survey shows Trump and Biden tied among Florida Hispanics, a 23% underperformance by Biden vs. Hillary Clinton in the same poll in 2016. In addition, as Biden cozies up to avowed socialists in his Democratic Party like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, he alienates American Hispanics who did not come to this country to replicate the failure of Latin American nations beset by socialism and systemic corruption.

– Steve Cortes is Senior Advisor for Strategy to the Trump Campaign.