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Vice President Mike Pence made his first campaign trip of the year to Florida Thursday, targeting voters in the highly competitive I-4 corridor. His stops in Tampa and Kissimmee are a sign of who President Trump’s re-election campaign is targeting: older voters and Hispanic residents. WUSF’s Steve Newborn and WMFE’s Brendan Byrne asked voters attending Thursday’s event about the issues that matter to them. We start in Tampa. Republicans and Democrats want to lay claim to Florida’s Latino and Hispanic votes. Republicans have been hard at work trying to paint Democrats as socialist. That is a loaded word in many Latino communities. Audriana Thomas reports Latino and Hispanic voters have been divided in recent years. After years of pushing for the change, a plan to expand the scope of nurse practitioners is a priority for the speaker of the Florida House. But as Regan McCarthy reports, the Senate President says he’s not quite convinced. When Fort Lauderdale author Dawn Davies moved to |