Democratic candidates have been focused on early voting states and have not campaigned heavily yet in Florida. But a Democratic-aligned voter registration group has been hoping to sign up tens of thousands of new voters.
“In Puerto Rico, politics are very important for the people. It's the number one thing people talk about,” said Santiago, a Republican who supports Trump.
The Trump campaign is aggressively courting the Hispanic vote, especially religious conservatives, in Florida. Vice President Mike Pence will visit central Florida next week, and Trump held a rally January 3 at a Latino megachurch in the state. It was the opening of the Hispanic Federation's Polk County voter outreach office, but they'd already been on the ground prior to the ribbon-cutting. Between Nov. 18 and Dec. 10, the group had registered 915 voters at bodegas, libraries and outside of government offices. Their goal: 1,500 by the end of the year.
More often than not, people responded in Spanish. Many said they'd already registered to vote, while others paused and reached for the clipboard, saying they needed to update their address.
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