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Pence: Trump To Announce New Sanctions On Cuba

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Wires reporting that President Donald Trump will announce a new series of sanctions on Cuba today, as he holds an event to honour the veterans of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.

  • The announcement of increasingly hardline measures against the Cuban gov't is likely targeted at Cuban-Americans in key swing states such as Texas and Florida.
  • In Florida, notably, the Cuban-American vote is substantial and if Trump can get the cohort - which by-and-large is extremely hostile to the Cuban gov't - to vote Republican and in large numbers it could help him to carry the state for a second consecutive election.

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