Obama is back in Florida amid early signs of a big Hispanic election turnout [View all]
Source: Washington Post
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — President Obama, his lectern set in the middle of a baseball stadium here, made a case for Hillary Clinton on Sunday in an election that he described as s contest over the country's identity and values.
“It is about the character of this country,” Obama said of the election. “Who are we? What do we stand for?”
This was Obama’s second trip in the past four days to Florida, where mobilizing the Hispanic vote is seen as critical to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton winning the state.
So far Florida has seen a big increase in early voting compared with 2012, and early indications are that Hispanics, moved by Republican nominee Donald Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric and calls for a wall on the southern U.S. border, are coming out in big numbers. The surge of Latino voters in Florida, a state that Trump probably must win if he is going to take the White House, bodes well for Clinton.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/06/obama-is-back-in-florida-amid-early-signs-of-a-big-hispanic-election-turnout/
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