Biden to visit Little Havana, Little Haiti Monday in Miami
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will visit Little Haiti and Little Havana ahead of a Monday evening NBC town hall event near downtown Miami, his campaign announced Sunday.
The former vice president and his wife, Jill Biden, are scheduled to visit the Little Haiti Cultural Center in the mid-afternoon, according to his schedule. Then they will head to Little Havana to talk about Biden’s “Build Back Better” campaign platform — re-branded
”in recognition of the majorityHispanic neighborhood.
After that, Jill Biden will head to Boca Raton in
Palm Beach County for a drive-in rally. And Joe Biden will attend the 8 p.m. televised NBC town hall outdoors with a socially distanced audience of undecided voters at the Peréz Art Museum Miami. NBC has said it previously extended a similar offer to President Donald Trump, who on Sunday remained hospitalized with COVID-19.
Biden’s Miami visit is his first since September of 2019. It comes on the final day to register to vote in the Nov. 3 election in Florida, and as tens of thousands of mail ballots are being filled out and returned daily.
Polls show Biden’s support in left-leaning MiamiDade County — Florida’s most populous county — is below what 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won four years ago, back when President Donald Trump won Florida by 1.2%. The increase in support for Trump in the county is due largely to Trump’s improved performance among Hispanic voters, especially CubanAmericans.
Trump last visited Miami-Dade County on Sept. 25, when he held a Latinos for Trump event at his Doral golf resort. Less than a week later, Trump announced he’d contracted COVID-19. He is currently a patient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
It’s likely the coronvirus pandemic will be on Biden’s agenda in Miami. As of Sunday, 14,671 Florida residents had died of COVID-19. The pandemic has hit Miami’s Hatian-American community — the largest in the U.S. — especially hard.
Haitian-Americans publicly called for Biden to visit the community in person after being left out of a Black leaders roundtable last month in Miami Gardens with Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris.