In Florida's bluest county, Biden says Broward is the key to the presidential election
With Florida Democrats voting by mail at a record pace, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden dove into deep blue Broward County Tuesday in the hope of expanding his pre-Election Day lead over President Donald Trump.
The former vice president reveled in the sound of car horns as dozens of supporters in the heavily Caribbean-American city of Miramar gathered at an amphitheater for a drive-in rally — a socially distanced version of the campaign gatherings the Biden campaign has sworn off since the coronavirus pandemic emerged in March.
“It’s go time!” Biden shouted from a stage at Memorial Regional Park overlooking sedans draped in Biden covers and carrying American flags. “Here in Florida, you can determine the outcome of this election. We win Florida and it’s all over.”
The location of the event — part of a national campaign by Democrats to encourage voters to “make a plan to vote” — was a nod to both the importance of battleground Florida and to the growing influence of the state’s Caribbean Black community, which has been energized since Biden selected Jamaican-American U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. Miramar is home to a large, politically active Jamaican-American community and the host of one of Broward County’s busiest early voting centers, where people lined up for hours in 2008 to cast ballots to elect Barack Obama as president.
On Tuesday, Broward County Mayor Dale Holness, who is Jamaican-American, urged Broward’s Black voters to repeat that turnout.
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