Most Americans want to end the Cuba embargo — and this GOP senator wants to make it happen

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ).
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Nearly six in 10 Americans are ready for normalized diplomatic and trade relations in Cuba, per a new CBS/New York Times poll released Monday, while only 25 percent oppose the thaw. This news comes as President Obama visits Cuba this week, the first trip to the island by a sitting U.S. president in nearly nine decades.

Though self-identified Republicans were significantly divided on renewed diplomacy — 44 percent support it, but 42 percent oppose — the project finds serious support on Capitol Hill from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.