Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) blasted congressional Democrats for visiting with the communist government in Cuba after controversial left-wing commentator Hasan Piker did the same.
“One thing that’s frustrating to me is you have Democrats that go down there, stay in four-star hotels where there’s plenty of electricity while the people next door don’t have anything, and act like the Cuban regime is this wonderful group of people,” Scott said.
The Florida senator and former governor is one of the most outspoken critics of communist Cuba on Capitol Hill. Scott made the comments criticizing Democrats for their Cuba policy in an In Focus interview with the Washington Examiner’s Peter Laffin.
“What they’re telling you is they don’t care,” Scott told Laffin. “They don’t care about political prisoners. They don’t care about the people of Cuba. They believe in what the Castro regime has done. And so why would any American vote for something
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