Donald Trump will deliver a policy speech Friday in his first visit to Miami in more than eight months.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee will speak at 2:30 p.m. at the Royal Poinciana ballroom of the DoubleTree Hotel Miami Airport & Convention Center at 711 NW 72nd Ave. His campaign posted the event on the schedule portion of Trump’s website.
“This event is closed to the general public,” the site says.
The topic of the speech is unclear.
Earlier, Trump plans to meet with a small group of local community leaders, including politicians and fundraisers, the Miami Herald has learned.
Trump’s trip comes a little more than a week before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He hasn’t been in Florida, the nation’s largest swing state and a key battleground for Republicans to win the presidency, since June 11, when he rallied supporters in Tampa.
The last Trump campaigned in Miami was in October, when he held a well-attended rally at his Trump National Doral golf resort. He had scheduled another Doral rally for two days before the March 15 Florida primary but called it off to spend more time in Ohio. Trump ended up losing Ohio but crushing his rivals in Florida, where he won the primary with 46 percent of the vote and forced the end of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s candidacy.
Rubio told CNN Wednesday he might meet with Trump on Friday in Miami. But Rubio’s office also said Wednesday that Rubio, who is now campaigning for re-election to the Senate, won’t attend the upcoming convention.
Miami, with its majority Hispanic population, has emerged as a cradle of Republican skepticism over Trump, who has repeatedly upset Latinos with his comments about Mexicans, a border wall and an Indiana judge of Hispanic descent.
Two of three local members of Congress — Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen — have said they won’t vote for him (or for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton). Neither will Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez refuses to talk about the presidential race — but it’s Clinton’s campaign that’s trying to woo him, offering to let him meet Saturday with campaign manager Robby Mook, who will be in town to open a Clinton field office in Wynwood.
Trump has yet to inaugurate a Miami campaign office.
Trump Speech today in Miami @ 2:30pm EDT
I wonder if it will be postponed because of last nights killing of 5 cops in Dallas.
Thank you nikos!
Good morning everyone.
God protect Donald Trump
The topic of the speech is unclear.
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My guess is it’s going to be about policy.
Donald Trump should say nothing about the Dallas shootings. Other than to say, “I am so sad about where we have come in this country. I feel so sorry about state of America where people just don’t seem to know any more the difference between right and wrong. Or they just don’t care. I feel for the family’s of all the victims. And worry that we are in a much worse place than we were 7 years ago.”
Miami, with its majority Hispanic population, has emerged as a cradle of Republican skepticism over Trump, who has repeatedly upset Latinos with his comments about Mexicans, a border wall and an Indiana judge of Hispanic descent.
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Trump upsets the right people. He’s very popular with the good Hispanics.
While events in Dallas last night are most newsworthy, I don;t think he'd use that as a reason to postpone or cancel his speech this afternoon.
Thank you for the thread and the ping, dearest nikos.
Good morning, all.
Is he still giving it in light of what happened? Last time he cancelled a rally after Orlando.
America is in deep trouble this morning. God Bless America and God Bless Donald Trump.
I HOPE TRUMP HAS A GREAT RESPONSE TO THE SHOOTINGS - all of the shootings. The two men, one in Louisiana and one in Minnesota, and of course, the ambush in Dallas.
This is a perfect opportunity for him to show us how he would handle this horrible mess Obama & Hillary have us in. today.
This is my state and I went to bed in tears and woke up with so much heart ache and sadness for the families for those police officers! I blame Obama and the liberals! I do not want to hear from Trump about the golf course or his polling numbers or how he won the primaries, I want him to come out guns a blazing!!!!!. If he blows this it will be such a disappointment. I hope he blames this squarely on Obama and the beast! Nothing else will satisfy! Folks this is war! If it can happen here in Dallas it’s bound to happen all across the nation ....be ready be loaded have plenty of ammo and refuse to turn your guns over when the evil rats make the wimpy rinos caver on gun confiscation! THIS IS WAR!!! I heard there are plenty of black folk celebrating the murder of these officers this morning! We have become a sick sick nation! America no longer exists from here on it’s downhill... folks lock and load! I also have heard Sharpton and Jackson are blaming Trump ...WHAT FREAKIN loony world are we living in !!! This has been festering for eight years now ever since Obama took office! If there’s anybody to be solely to blame here its Obama for flaming the fires of racism!
Just came over twitter, Trump has cancelled this speech in honor of the 5 police officers killed last night...
We need to call them BLT:
BLACK
LYING
TERRORISTS