Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the candidate of tomorrow, is making a bid to lock up what Markos once called the
crusty, bitter, old Cuban-American vote by promising to roll back President Obama's Cuba policy. Sabrina Siddiqui
reports:
Rubio, a top contender for the Republican nomination for president, said he would “absolutely” reverse the unilateral steps Obama has taken thus far to normalize relations between the two countries – including closing down the embassies that are slated to open on 20 July – if he is elected to the White House in 2016. [...]
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has been the leading opponent in the US Congress of Obama’s overtures to the island nation.
Who knows? Maybe this gains him something as a wedge issue against Jeb! in Florida. But other than that, not much. Although more Cuban Americans had favored keeping the embargo than ending it, more Latinos and even Florida Latinos overall favored scrapping it, according to
polling from Latino Decisions.
As for the Cuban Americans that favored the old policy, they're old and getting older by the day, as Markos wrote in this earlier post.
Like every other one of the GOP's demographic woes, fact is, support for the embargo is (literally) dying off as I type this.