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The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

‘From Havana to DC’: How Cuban Americans shaped U.S. politics

The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

Chuck Todd

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Carlos Orta, author of, “From Havana to DC: The Rise of Cuban Americans in Florida Politics,” talks about his “love letter” to the Latino trailblazers who shaped U.S. politics. Plus, Chuck’s thoughts on how international affairs affect how U.S. elections on the heels of far-right gains in European elections.

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0:00.0

Hello from Washington, I'm Chuck Todd,

0:05.0

I'm Chuck Todd, and this is the Chuck Todd task.

0:09.0

So my guest today is Carlos Orta.

0:11.0

He's the author of a new book from Havana to D.C. the rise of Cuban Americans in Florida politics.

0:16.0

You can imagine why I took an interest in this book if you know me well, being raised in Miami, especially during the heyday of the rise of this.

0:24.8

So for me it's a bit of a reunion with somebody who lived a, lived in a similar life as I did in some ways, but we live parallel lives and obviously you'll

0:38.2

I think enjoy the conversation and I hope learn a thing or two about South Florida politics and about immigration politics and things like that.

0:44.8

But before we get started, I actually am going to stick to a bit of an international theme here because arguably

0:51.1

before I would say 2008 the idea that global politics could be used as a way to analyze what was going to happen in American politics was a bit

1:06.5

naive. I mean we were we sort of dictated the way things were going around the world and in many ways we are still very domestic

1:15.4

focused of course and in fact there's only a couple of international issues that I

1:19.3

think can have sway domestically in an election Cuba politics and Florida is one of them, right?

1:25.4

Venezuelan politics, you know, that sort of thing can have an impact on say

1:29.3

how the state of Florida votes, certainly how South Florida votes. What's going on in Israel can have domestic effects. of voting issue for anybody. I'm not saying there's an I say there say anybody you know the

1:44.3

broad sweep but the point is for a lion's share of voters you're not going to see many of

1:48.3

them vote on Ukraine. But as the economy has become more globalized, you now have these sort of global, small

1:58.8

d democratic trends that the United States is not immune from anymore.

2:05.0

And we could debate whether we're exporting our problems globally,

2:08.7

whether it's just all, I just think it's simply,

2:12.2

you know, the democracies around the world

2:14.0

you know pilot there there's a reason that the statement all politics is local well

2:17.9

all politics is local even when you go overseas right you know the cost of living

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