ana navarro is a contributor to cnn, abc and telemundo. | getty by madeline conway 11/07/16 03:08 pm est ana navarro, the republican strategist whose angry condemnations of donald trump have made her a prominent conservative critic of the gop nominee, said she voted for hillary clinton for president. navarro, who was john mccain<u+2019>s national hispanic campaign chair in 2008 and supported jeb bush in the primaries, described her vote as one against trump in a monday op-ed on cnn<u+2019>s website . story continued below navarro, who is a contributor to the network as well as abc and the spanish-language channel telemundo, noted that she had proposed writing in her mother<u+2019>s name out of dissatisfaction with her party<u+2019>s nominee. but she said the close polls in her home state prompted her to choose between the candidates on the ballot. <u+201c>i had hoped that a week before the election, trump would be losing florida by a large enough margin that my vote wouldn't matter,<u+201d> navarro wrote. <u+201c>but darn it, my home state is too close to call. florida could be the decisive state (again) as to who ultimately becomes the next president of the united states. i thought back to the 2000 election, which was decided by 537 votes in florida. i thought about how i would feel if the same thing happened in 2016. i thought and i thought and i thought....<u+201d> she continued: <u+201c>then i cast my vote for hillary clinton. let me rephrase that. i cast my vote against donald trump. i did it without joy or enthusiasm. i did it out of civic duty and love for our country.<u+201d> noting her own identity as an hispanic immigrant, the op-ed noted the various insults and inflammatory statements trump has made on the campaign trail, including his 2005 comments, caught on a hot mic, that he could grope women without their consent because of his celebrity. (navarro achieved a degree of celebrity status last month when she insisted on repeating, on cnn, the profanity trump used to describe women<u+2019>s genitals in the tape; her op-ed does not include the word.) navarro criticized clinton, as well, noting her distaste for the former secretary of state<u+2019>s use of a private email server and <u+201c>the blurry lines and for-profit overlap between clinton's philanthropic, business and political worlds.<u+201d> she concluded, however, that clinton needed her vote. <u+201c>my conscience compels me to do every little thing i can to make sure a bad person is not our next president,<u+201d> navarro wrote. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
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