DAMARIS OLLER came to America from the Dominican Republic in 1974, worked hard, lived legally and raised two children. But she did not become a citizen—because she saw no need to—until last April. “It was because of that man,” she explains at the El Jibarito café in Kissimmee, in central Florida, where she serves tasty slow-roast pork, plantains and beans. “I was afraid that if Donald Trump becomes president I’d be kicked out the country.”
Ms Oller is the Hispanic voter of Hillary Clinton’s dreams. Frightened and disgusted by Mr Trump’s promise to deport 11m undocumented people, and by his slandering of Mexicans as rapists and the Spanish language as unAmerican, she says she will vote for the Democratic nominee as if her life depended on it: “Estoy con ella” (“I’m with her”). She is also a Floridian Hispanic, which makes her one of the most important voters in America.
Florida is the biggest swing state, with 29 electoral-college votes up for grabs, so more likely to determine who wins on November 8th than any other. Shifting from red to blue to red, then blue again, Floridians have picked the winner in the past...Continue reading
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