Ana Navarro: I'm voting for Hillary Clinton -- and against Donald Trump

[Coyotl]

Long article articulating so, so many things wrong with Trump.

Ana Navarro: I'm voting for Hillary Clinton -- and against Donald Trump
By Ana Navarro, Mon November 7, 2016

"Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and commentator, was national Hispanic campaign chairwoman for John McCain in 2008, national Hispanic co-chair for Jon Huntsman's 2012 campaign and was supporting Jeb Bush's candidacy for 2016. Follow her on Twitter @ananavarro. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers."

I didn't want to write this. I avoided making a decision as long as I could. I schlepped my absentee ballot all over the country for almost four weeks. I would periodically take it out of the envelope, look at it, shake my head in disgust, and put it back in my suitcase.

I had decided to write-in my mother as a symbolic protest vote against the Democratic and Republican nominees. I didn't want to vote for either of them.

I had hoped that a week before the election, Trump would be losing Florida by a large enough margin that my vote wouldn't matter. But darn it, my home state is too close to call. Florida could be the decisive state (again) as to who ultimately becomes the next president of the United States. I thought back to the 2000 election, which was decided by 537 votes in Florida. I thought about how I would feel if the same thing happened in 2016. I thought and I thought and I thought....

Then I cast my vote for Hillary Clinton. Let me rephrase that. I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.

I voted against Donald Trump because I am an immigrant. Trump has spent this campaign focusing on the very bad things done by a very small group of very bad immigrants. He has portrayed immigrants as criminals, rapists, and murderers. He does not talk about the contributions immigrants have made to America. He does not talk about immigrants who have made this a better and stronger country. He does not talk about the thousands and thousands of immigrant names that fill the Vietnam Wall in Washington or that are carved on so many headstones in every US military cemetery around the world.

I voted against Donald Trump because I am Hispanic. ......

[Coyotl]

1. evening kick

[TrekLuver]

3. Immigrants made this country...IMMIGRANTS ARE THIS COUNTRY.

There is only one group that is indigenous to this land and they don't call em Native American's for nuthin!

[anneboleyn]

4. She has ferociously fought the Trump talking heads on CNN. Trump's comments about Latinos

pissed her off big time, and the access Hollywood just disgusted her.

[Coyotl]

5. Imagine how many Latinos and women are thinking the same thing. Brace yourselves for tomorrow!