In an interview with Fox News Digital, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, a Republican from Florida, shared his reasons for attending the Iowa State Fair over the weekend.
As the sole member of Congress born in Cuba, Gimenez expressed his support for former President Trump rather than his home state’s Governor Ron DeSantis.
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“I supported the president,” Gimenez explained. “I think he’s the right person for the job. Like I told the people of Iowa, I came from another country. I had to flee my country. I see many of the same things that happened in my own country of Cuba. Not exactly, but some signs of the same things that are starting to happen here.” (Poll: Do You Stand With Trump Despite Multiple Criminal Indictments? VOTE)
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— Carlos A. Gimenez (@CarlosGimenezFL) August 11, 2023
“I certainly don’t want, you know, this country to go down that path,” he said, referring to communism.
“And I think the one person that can reverse the path that we’re on, which is, in my opinion, a disastrous path, is President Trump. And so that’s the message I delivered to the people of Iowa. I’m kind of unique in that sense that I’m the only one there that wasn’t born here. And so I have a different perspective. But the reception that he got was extraordinary.”
“Americans are patently fair. They want fairness, they want justice. And they just don’t see that happening right now,” Gimenez said. (Trending: Democrat Threatens To Leave Party In Scathing Statement)
“They see what reminiscent to me of a Third World country. You know, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, one way he won the presidency was basically by jailing all of his opponents.”
“And so is President Biden taking a, you know, a page out of Ortega’s playbook by trying and throwing as much as he can against probably his chief rival? No, not probably his chief rival, putting his chief rival in jail?” Gimenez continued.
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— Carlos A. Gimenez (@CarlosGimenezFL) August 12, 2023
“Again, since I come from another country, I look at these countries and see what was going on over there. And that’s what’s happened in Nicaragua. And, you know, there is a similarity here between what President Biden’s doing, and it’s definitely political.”
“The base is with him, the base will stick with him,” he said of Trump. “I believe there’s 35, 40% of the Republican base that will never leave…. And, you know, that puts everybody at a disadvantage because he’s starting out at 40% and everybody’s starting zero.”
“These streams of indictments have just strengthened his hold on his backers,” he said. (Poll: Is Joe Biden Fit to be President? VOTE)
“I’m not a Washingtonian. I’m a Miamian,” he told Fox News Digital.
“I’ve been a member of this community for a long time. I’ve served this community in a number of roles. And this is just my final one. So I’ve been the fire chief of this community. I’ve been the city manager of the city, I’ve been commissioner of the county and the mayor of the county. Just now, I went to Washington. So in my case, the argument doesn’t hold. I am a local person. I am a community person. So, you know, I can’t speak for the rest, but I can speak for myself.”
