Latino voters in Florida could help Republicans win in key races

Leandro Ruiz Fernandez spent his entire summer in 2016 as a “super-volunteer” for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in the battleground state of Florida.

He made phone calls. He registered people to vote. Anything to help get her elected.

Then 18, he had just registered to vote for the first time as a Democrat.

“I was always interested in politics, and I always wanted to do something. I really wanted to see which party I could identify with. I saw Clinton as the best choice out of the two candidates,” he said from his home in the suburban Miami neighborhood of Kendall.

Clinton went on to win the 27th Congressional District that he lives in by a staggering 20 percentage points, but she lost both his state and the election to Donald Trump.