Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign launched a new radio ad called "Two Trumps" that focuses on Newsweek's discovery that Trump's company apparently violated the embargo on Cuba in 1998.
"One Donald comes to Miami to sip cafecito Cubano and talk about the human rights abuses of Castro's communist regime. The other Donald thinks because of his money and his business that he's above the law," the ad says, speaking in both English and Spanish.
"An investigative report by Newsweek revealed that one of Donald Trump's businesses violated the Cuba embargo in 1998. It said that the business paid a consultant $68,000 to travel to Cuba and explore business opportunities for Trump's company."
Newsweek claims that "with Trump's knowledge," executives at his company sent consultants to Cuba, and that a company controlled by the GOP nominee "secretly conducted business in Communist Cuba during Fidel Castro's presidency."
Trump denied the report last Thursday, saying "I never did business in Cuba … I never did anything in Cuba. I never did a deal in Cuba."
According to Politico, almost three-quarters of Republicans in Miami-Dade County, where the ad is being run, are Cuban-American. Despite support for the embargo falling rapidly across the country, there is some support from Republicans of Cuban descent.
"The reaction [from the Cuban exile community] has been muted," Dario Moreno, Republican pollster and political science professor at Florida International University, told Politico. "First off: fever for the embargo is falling considerably. And second, a lot of these voters have nowhere else to go."