Republican nominee Donald Trump would consider scrapping President Barack Obama’s normalization of ties with Cuba if the Castro brothers do not do as he asks.
“The President’s one-sided deal for Cuba benefits only the Castro Regime,” the GOP nominee told supporters at a rally in Florida Friday. The U.S.-Cuba relationship is of great importance in Florida, which has a large Cuban-American voting bloc that typically tends to identify as Republican.
Obama decided via executive order in December 2014 to reestablish diplomatic ties with the Communist island country just 90 miles away from the U.S. The president’s actions allowed the embassies in reopen in one another’s respective capital cities in 2015.
Trump said Obama’s normalization of ties with Cuba in December 2014 that, “all of the concessions that Barack Obama has granted the Castro Regime were done through executive order, which means the next President can reverse them – and that is what I will do, unless the Castro Regime meets our demands.”
The Republican presidential candidate went on to say that, “those demands will include religious and political freedom for the Cuban people and the freeing of political prisoners.”
Trump won Florida in the Republican primaries, beating out the state’s own junior Sen. Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American, who immediately after his defeat, decided to suspend his presidential campaign. The latest polling average compiled by RealClearPolitics shows Trump with a slight edge over Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, 45.1 percent to 44.4 percent.
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