The Puerto Rican Wave That Could Boost Hillary Clinton in Florida

Source: Time

By Sam Frizell/Kissimmee, Fla

Anibal Camacho stood in a soupy-hot central Florida backyard on a recent Wednesday, making calls from his Puerto Rican-area code cell phone. “Papi, someone in Puerto Rico is calling!” someone on the other end of the line called out.

Camacho left the island two years ago seeking better schools for his grandchildren in the United States, but he never gave up his old phone number. It gives him something to chat about with fellow Puerto Ricans in Florida when he makes his pitch: Can you help volunteer for Hillary Clinton?

“We will have good participation in Osceola County,” said Camacho, debriefing under a palm tree after a sweaty couple hours making calls for Clinton. Donald Trump“doesn’t have knowledge of the Hispanic culture and working people culture. We Puerto Ricans don’t like his comments.”

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