Recent polls in Florida show the Vermont senator trailing Joe Biden by double digits and coming in third behind Mike Bloomberg.
Bloomberg, a former Republican, suspended his campaign on Wednesday after failing to win any states on Super Tuesday, although he did win the caucus in American Samoa. He endorsed Biden's campaign as well.
As Biden has pulled ahead as the new front-runner, and as moderates line up to endorse his campaign, Sanders appears to be facing an increasingly uphill battle to secure the party's nomination. Florida's 219 delegates would be a big prize for any candidate, and it increasingly looks as if they could largely go to Biden. If Sanders fails to garner at least 15 percent of the Democratic vote in the state, all of those delegates would go to his more moderate rival.
Florida has a sizable Cuban-American population, which is largely critical of Castro and the communist government he established in their former country, and state lawmakers were quick to criticize the remarks. "I'm hoping that in the future, Senator Sanders will take time to speak to some of my constituents before he decides to sing the praises of a murderous tyrant like Fidel Castro," Democratic Representative Donna Shalala said in a tweet.
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