Whoever made the call for Joe Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, to visit a Venezuelan restaurant while in the Miami area may want to reconsider the decision.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee was in Doral last week, which has a sizable Venezuelan population, along with her husband, and paid an unannounced visit to Amaize Latin Flavors to glad-hand diners for a nice photo op.
(CNN contributor Ana Navarro, an alleged Republican, also accompanied Harris.)
But with President Trump calling Biden a “Trojan horse for socialism,” insisting that he’s a “puppet” for the “socialist” agenda of the party’s radical left-wing base, the visit was fraught with risk.
Slate described Trump’s strategy to win over Florida Latinos as “portraying Biden as the second coming of Fidel Castro.”
Or Hugo Chavez.
And polling suggests it’s working — even Slate said the “socialism attack” could be “particularly effective, targeting Cuban Americans … but also a growing number of more recent arrivals from Venezuela and Nicaragua who are understandably wary of even the whiff of socialism.”
Andres Garcia, president of the board of the directors of Amaize Latin Flavors, told NBC 6 that they would not have approved the visit had the campaign asked. And the reasoning was not exactly politically motivated.
Local news disaster for @KamalaHarris in Doral, Florida.
— The Hill Report (@StandWithAZ) September 15, 2020
She visited a Venezuelan restaurant *unannounced* -- and the owner was left angry, customers called for a boycott.
She was "not welcome"... pic.twitter.com/Vhh6lAIAbW
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