Florida voters are increasingly voicing a similar take on Republican front-runner Donald Trump: "Dice lo que piensa"— Spanish for "he speaks his mind." Trump boasts that he can win the Hispanic vote in a general election and next week, he faces his first major test in the winner-take-all primary in Florida, a highly contentious swing state with a large and diverse population of Latino voters. Trump's comments about building a southern border wall and his accusations that many Mexicans in the U.S. are "criminals, drug dealers, rapists" have outraged and alienated many American Hispanics. Yet his tough stance on illegal immigration plays well among Florida's more conservative Latinos. Many...
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