At rally for Donald Trump Friday, the nominee’s son Eric Trump and his wife, Lara, posed for a photo with a young woman wearing a shirt that said “Latina contra Trump.”
The shirt’s message translates as “Latina against Trump.”
“Congrats, y’all played yourselves,” the shirt’s wearer, 23-year-old Annie Cardelle, posted on Twitter alongside photos from the pro-Trump event in Salisbury, North Carolina.
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Annie, who attended the event with her 17-year-old sister, Ceci Cardelle, said she was “shocked” that they were able to pull off the baldfaced stunt.
“Neither of us thought that we’d get a photo with him,” Annie told The Huffington Post on Sunday. “I actually wore a sweater over it because I thought that [otherwise] we wouldn’t get in.”
“We thought it was going to be very hard. We thought we’d be told to leave or go back,” Ceci added.
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“We didn’t see anyone there that was Latin American or that we thought could speak Spanish,” Ceci said. “While we were surprised that no one really noticed, I really think that it stands as a testament to the lack of diversity surrounding that campaign.”
Both sisters now support Clinton after originally backing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), they said.
“I think about all the undocumented people who can’t vote and I think that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done a much better job on how she deals with them, talking about a path towards citizenship,” Annie said.
“We hear what you say every day,” she added, “and words matter.”
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