Pence Visits Florida to Make a Lesson of Socialist Venezuela
- Republicans claim that Democrats would emulate Maduro
- Trump has thrown his backing to challenger Juan Guaido
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As socialism gains traction among left-leaning Democrats, Republicans are turning stricken Venezuela into a cautionary tale.
Vice President Mike Pence arrived to give a Venezuela policy speech on Friday in Florida -- a seat of anti-socialist sentiment since the Cuban Revolution. The move was at once a high-profile riposte to rising liberal Democrats like New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an attempt to make inroads in America’s largest swing state and a move to further pressure strongman President Nicolas Maduro, who is clinging to power.