GOP lawmaker warns Cuban blackouts are an admonition against a Kamala Harris presidency

A top Republican lawmaker issued a warning Wednesday against the dangers of socialist policies creeping into the federal government as the Cuban people continue to suffer under a widespread blackout.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., the only Cuban-born lawmaker in Congress, said the tragedy facing the island is directly attributable to the 65 years of leftist, authoritarian rule under the Castro brothers and now President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

"We've got six days now when the entire island of Cuba has been blacked-out," Gimenez said, further describing how the government at times has initiated 20-hour regional blackouts to conserve power.

"But at least they had some electricity [then]. Now the entire island is blacked-out. This is all due to the incompetence of the system: the socialist-communist system that the Cubans have had..."

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Gimenez said the entire situation is a warning against electing Vice President Kamala Harris and lawmakers with socialist tendencies and those who self-identify as such.

"Bernie Sanders, AOC, and now Kamala Harris is [sic] to the left of Bernie Sanders: I've always said they're all socialists," he said, further suggesting Sanders and others' use of the term "democratic socialist" is a distinction without a difference.