Posted on 03/13/2016 8:52:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk
For Trump backers, ethnicity plays no factor.
"I don't think Cuban, I think American," said former Hialeah Mayor Julio Martinez, who for two weeks has held a Trump campaign sign outside an early voting site just blocks from where Rubio last week implored Hispanics to vote for him in Tuesday's presidential primary.
Perched in a lawn chair outside the John F. Kennedy Library, holding a "The Silent Majority Stands with Trump" sign, Martinez said he was backing Trump because there was "nobody better suited" to fixing the economy.
"The worst problem the United States has today is the economy," he said.
As if on cue, Luis Tejera, 51, walked over and asked to pose for a picture with Martinez and his sign.
"I just want a change. I'm tired of the politicians promising everything and nothing happens," said Tejera, a police officer. Though Cuban-American, he said the Cuban ties of Rubio and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas meant little to him.
"I vote for the person and their ideas, not their race or ethnicity," he said.
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Remember most legals hate illegals
Hispanics are not some monolithic ethnic group. In Florida a fair percentage of Hispanics would be Cubans, who have tended Republican for a long time now. It’s not surprising that Trump would attract support among them.
The miami herald is as bad as the ny daily news lately
Newspaper what is that???
Newspaper: the OTHER toilet paper....
We still receive the Sunday Herald. I dont read 1/2 of it but the Mrs loves the coupons
the media and the establishment never tells the public that there is a difference between legal and illegal
“the media and the establishment never tells the public that there is a difference between legal and illegal”
That’s because they want the public to think good candidates like Trump want to end all immigration. The media is our biggest problem.
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