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Dawn would be when Don Quixote and Sancho, immortalized in the murals of the John F. Kennedy Library in

Hialeah

(Florida), saw the noisy white 'pick up' pass by with a clearly visible sign:

"No to socialism, no to communism , yes to capitalism

.

"

On board, on election day, half a dozen supporters of Donald Trump traveled, waving a flag with a rifle stamped on a slogan as defiant: "Come and take it" ("Come and take it from me").

They did not block the highway, nor did they block the voters.

But in their hostile way they

surrounded the electoral college from early in the morning

and set up the beach bar on a corner, about thirty meters from the entrance.

A masked man in paramilitary attire proclaimed in the parking lot: "The Americans have faith in us because we are the shock troops so that communism does not enter."

Another left his voice shouting:

"Here we do not want dictatorships that have their hands full of blood!"

.

Amid the hubbub broke through

Stephen 'Steve' Bovo

, Republican candidate for mayor of Miami-Dade and fervent admirer of Donald Trump, ready to improvise a rally before the cameras: " They

have tried to

divide our communities, but they will not Because deep down, we "Nicaraguans", Venezuelans and Cubans face the same problem in all our countries, which is communism. "

With the flag of the rifle as a backdrop, Bovo made

a call "for our best weapon, which is the vote,"

for President Trump to be elected and for himself to be able to get away at the polls from Democrat Daniella Levine Cava, that threatened to end the republican monopoly in the city.

In downtown

Miami

, meanwhile, the Design Dictrict stores closed and protected the windows with wood panels from what might happen.

Florida was one of the first states to "process" the more than

eight million votes (66% of the census) cast by mail or deposited in advance

at colleges such as the John F. Kennedy Library, which became the eye of the hurricane. electoral.

On Tuesday morning it was already known that

39% of the votes cast belonged to citizens registered as Democrats, compared to 38% of registered Republicans and 21% of independents

, capable of tilting the result one way or the other.

With the polls open, the first news of hundreds of votes invalidated in Orange County due to identification problems, because they were not signed or with signatures other than the one registered, emerged.

With its

29 electoral votes

and the tradition of a changing or "pendulum" state, Florida once again attracted the attention of all Americans and turned up the volume from the very early hours of the morning in English and Spanish ...

"They don't have to convince me of anything, I already voted for Trump,"

confessed Masuri, a Cuban-American in her forties, after passing under the Don Quixote mural at the electoral college without removing her mask.

"And I'm going to give you a very simple reason why I voted for him: we haven't had an ISIS attack here since he was president, and in Europe you can see what's happening."

"Trump has been strong and clear against terrorism," emphasizes Masuri.

"In spite of everything, he has not gotten us into any new war. It is true that sometimes they lose their ways and he is quite rude, to put it mildly. But it is his way of speaking. He says what he thinks and there are those who like it. And who doesn't ... Democrats, on the other hand, are always hiding. They say they defend the poor to keep the funds and distribute a little. I have worked with them and I know how they work: they have diverted a lot of money to the protests of Black Lives Matter, to create that climate of violence in the street. "

Don Quixote and Sancho serve as the backdrop to the battle at the Hialeah Electoral College, FloridaC.

F.

In

Hialeah

, however, all the fuss is mounted by Trump's supporters, who are also joined by local Florida senator

René García

: "Many people have called for the concept of a republic, and that is what we defend. He has made us proud to be Republicans, so we are going to support him until the end, to prevent the threat of socialism from gaining strength in this country. "

Obama spoke precisely about the supposed "socialism" of Joe Biden at the heated closing of the campaign in Miami.

"Ignore all those ads that you are seeing these days," he

warned.

"They want you to believe that Joe has been having coffee with Castro. Believe me, he has been my vice president and if he were really a hidden socialist we would have found out by now."

Valeria Mendoza, 27, daughter of Nicaraguan immigrants and employed as a 'paralegal' in a law firm,

admits between her teeth that she has voted for Joe Biden

, although first she looks around as if to make sure that no one in Trump territory is listening: "It is an issue that provokes great discussions within families. That is what this president has achieved, dividing us to the point that we hardly speak among siblings. I think it has been a very negative influence for everyone."

In Trump's station wagon, meanwhile, the uproar continues throughout the tense election day and among information about the

dubious work of the "patriotic caravans" that have been roaming the country for days

and intimidating voters with their proclamations: "Only he is going to guarantee us the survival of capitalism and freedom. He has won our trust and we are giving it to him again. Long live the golden blonde!"

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