MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A record number of Cuban American voters in Miami-Dade County said they were voting for former President Donald Trump in November, according to a poll released by Florida International University on Wednesday.
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The FIU Cuba Poll showed that sixty-eight percent of voters in the group would cast their vote for Trump.
2024′s poll surveyed 1,001 Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade County by phone between Sept. 25 and Oct. 9.
The poll is the longest running survey of Cuban Americans in the country, tracking the community since 1991. The 2016 poll registered 35% approval for Trump, while the 2020 came in at 59%. The 2024 approval rate is also greater than the actual Cuban American vote for Trump in the last two presidential elections.
Related: Vote 2024 guide: Early voting runs from Oct. 21 to Nov. 3 in Florida
“It seems that the Trump train is still picking up passengers on Calle Ocho,” said Guillermo Grenier, lead investigator on the Cuba Poll and a professor of sociology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, which sponsors the poll along with FIU’s Cuban Research Institute. “Cuban Americans born outside of Cuba being the exception, the Cuban American community remains loyal to the Republican Party and the Trump version of it.”
South Floridians have been heading to polling sites since early voting started on Monday, Oct. 21.
As of Tuesday evening, more than 200,000 people had cast ballots in person and by mail in Miami-Dade, while more than 150,000 voted in Broward.
According to the poll, twenty-three percent of those asked reported they plan to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. Five percent remained undecided.
For more information about early voting in Miami-Dade County, click on this link.