AUSTIN, Texas — Amelia De La Cruz, 26, can barely fit through the door of Raquel’s Partyland pinata store, with 6 “Trumpiñatas” hanging off her shoulders.
The piñatas depicting GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump have been a “major seller” at this party store on Cesar Chavez street in Austin’s historically Mexican-American neighborhood, with De La Cruz saying they’ve sold more than 500 over the past several months.
“We sold one of [Democratic nominee] Hillary [Clinton] but it was specially ordered,” she says, making sure to add that the Clinton piñata was not meant to be smashed but was to serve as decoration at a voting party for the nominee.
Clinton-voter Amelia De La Cruz at Raquel’s Partyland store in Austin, Texas carries Trump piñatas which she says have been major sellers, November 8, 2016. (Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)
De La Cruz says she voted for the first time in her life today for Clinton, amid fears of Trump’s rhetoric against Mexican-Americans and other immigrants to the United States.
The fear, she says, is so real that even her eight-year-old daughter was in tears one day when asked her who she would vote for if she could.
“She just burst out crying,” De La Cruz says, visibly upset by the memory, “she just said that Trump is a bad man and that if he’s president we would all go to Mexico.”
Trump piñatas at Raquels Partyland in Austin, Texas, November 8, 2016. (Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)
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