Trump Jr. rallies with MMA fighters in Coconut Creek
President’s son rips Biden as ‘socialist’ who would take down the country
In a packed mixed martial arts training center in Coconut Creek, Donald Trump Jr. rallied several hundred of his father’s faithful on Sunday to rip Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as an unabashed socialist who would ruin the nation.
The Broward County city was the third stop on a whirlwind Florida bus tour for the young Trump dubbed “Fighters Against Socialism.” He was in the company of UFC fighter Jorge Masvidal, whose father, a Cuban refugee who came to the United States on a raft.
Those types of opportunities, Trump suggested would not be possible with Biden in the White House because he is adopting the very socialist policies that suppress economic advancement.
“And now we watch the Democrat Party literally becoming socialist,” he said. “They’re not the Democratic Party any more, folks. They are in name. Joe Biden’s adopted Bernie Sanders’ socialist platform. What do you think follows? We have been watching this, guys, as Democrat cities with Democrat mayors, and Democrat states with Democrat governors, have been burning down businesses, looting and rioting. No one’s said anything.”
The message was a reflection of President Trump’s assault on Biden as a candidate overtaken by socialist-styled policies of the Democratic Party’s left wing. On the night he accepted the Republican nomination for a second term, Trump said the nation is at a crossroads, with voters confronted with a choice between “two visions, two philosophies, two agendas.”
The Sunday tour’s focus on Cubans and other Hispanic voters was important for the Trump campaign as most Cuban Americans identify themselves as Republican, according Pew Research. That’s not the case for other Hispanic registered voters in the U.S., So Cuban votes “could have electoral implications” as Trump seeks to win Florida, an important swing state.
The tour started late in the morning at the Tampa Convention Center, and moved to Orlando for stop at a vocational training school called the MechTech Institute.
The group arrived in Coconut Creek around dinnertime at the American Top Team fighter school in Coconut Creek, where other mixed martial artists joined Trump, Masvidal and other supporters before the group moved onto the Miami Executive Airport.
In Miami, Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio was to join the group, aswell as Cuban refugee and South Florida businessman Maximo Alvarez, who addressed the Republican National Convention with a fiery speech about the need to defend the nation against Communism.
Alvarez, who is president of Sunshine Gasoline Distributors, said his family twice fled totalitarianism and tyranny — once from Spain, and again from Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
“Right now it is up to us to decide our fate and to choose freedom over oppression,” he told the conventioneers during a fiery speech. “President Trump is fighting the forces of anarchy and communism. And I know he will continue to do just that.”