This evening, GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, along with other Republican Members of Congress and incendiary racist influencers like Alex Otaola, will participate in a Cuba event solely for their own political benefit
Miami-based DCCC Spokesperson Abel Iraola released the following statement on tonight’s Republican event:
“Kevin McCarthy’s visit to Miami with other Congressional Republicans is a pathetic and cynical attempt to appropriate the Cuban people’s fight for freedom for their own political purposes. Republicans have zero credibility on defending democracy and human rights — not just abroad, but right here in the United States.
“They moved to invalidate millions of legitimate votes, continue to make excuses for those who perpetrated the January 6 attack on the Capitol, passed unconstitutional anti-free speech laws in Tallahassee and across the country, and continue to show fealty to an ex-president that incited an insurrection and regularly complimented authoritarians around the world.
“If Republicans cared about human rights and democracy, they would start here. But they don’t. The only thing they are interested in is milking the Cuban people’s struggle to end 62 years of communist dictatorship for everything they can get out of it. It is crass and disgusting.”
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