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As he has done repeatedly in recent speeches and campaign ads, Biden pointed to a report in The Atlantic that said Trump had privately referred to fallen American soldiers as “losers” and “suckers.”

“Quite frankly, it makes me very upset the way he gets in front of a camera and crows about how much he has done for veterans, and then turns around and insults our service members and fallen heroes when the camera’s off,” Biden said.

A Monmouth University poll released yesterday found Biden with an edge of five percentage points over Trump among likely voters in Florida. That difference was within the margin of error, but nonetheless more encouraging for the former vice president than projections in some other recent surveys of the state.

In the Monmouth poll, he was nipping at Trump’s heels among voters in military households — a key demographic in Florida, which has one of the highest concentrations of military recruits in the country. Trump had the support of 50 percent of voters in military households, and Biden had 46 percent.

When asked whether each candidate respected the military a “great deal,” 43 percent of those voters said Trump did, while 49 percent said Biden did.

The Monmouth poll provided a dose of reassuring news for Biden on another front: He was leading Trump by 26 points among Hispanic likely voters, roughly even with Hillary Clinton’s margin among this group in 2016, according to exit polls. That was a far better result for Biden than in other recent polls of Florida, which have put him and Trump roughly even among Hispanic voters.

Biden attended a Hispanic Heritage Month event in Kissimmee, Fla., last night, hours after his campaign had introduced a plan to support Puerto Rico, which has struggled to recover from a series of hurricanes and a prolonged economic downturn.