In true Miami fashion, the rains came quick and heavy — at least four times — as Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and Gente de Zona performed at a get-out-the-early-vote concert for Hillary Clinton Saturday under the glass-rimmed hotels and residential towers of downtown Miami. The mostly Latino crowd of 7,500 people moved fast, not to leave, but to retrieve their umbrellas. They weren’t going anywhere.
And by the time Lopez looked ready to wrap her set, Clinton came onstage. Her lines could have used some workshopping (after J.Lo’s “Let’s Get Loud” she said, “Well, I say, let’s get loud at the voting booth!”) but no one left. They cheered for her, seemed genuinely excited to see her standing with the divorced Lopez and Anthony, and when she echoed Michelle Obama’s now-famous line “When they go low…” the crowd thundered back in unison with Clinton “we go high!”
This crowd was packed with young Cubans, Venezuelans, and Puerto Ricans — the Latino vote everyone talks about.
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