Democrats’ advantage with Latino voters has dwindled to the lowest levels seen in four presidential election cycles under Vice President Kamala Harris, a new poll has found.
Harris maintains a 14-point lead over President Donald Trump with the critical voting bloc — 54% to 40% — with 6% of Latino voters undecided, according to a new NBC News/Telemundo/CNBC national poll, which sampled registered voters of Latino descent.
The VP’s modest showing is a far cry from Democrats’ performance with Latino voters in recent elections.
Democrats enjoyed a 33-point advantage in the 2020 presidential election, a 38-point edge in 2016 and a 44-point margin in 2012 among Latino voters, per NBC exit polling data.
A mélange of polling has indicated Trump is gaining ground among Latino voters, who represent the largest racial or ethnic minority in the US.
Latino voters also favor Democrats to control Congress instead of Republicans by a margin of 54% to 42%, the poll found. That similarly marks a decline relative to past election cycles.
On specific issues, Latinos favored Harris, 59, when it comes to treating immigrants humanely by 39 points, abortion by 34 points, having the right temperament by 28 points, representing change by 21 points and getting the country to head in the right direction by 12 points.
They favored Trump, 78, on the economy by four points, tackling inflation by nine points and addressing the border by 13 points.
A sizeable 62% of Latino voters feel that immigration helps more than it hurts, compared to 35% who feel the opposite. That 35% is the largest number of Latino voters who have felt that way in two decades, per the poll. --->READ MORE HERE
A new survey shows Hispanic voters strongly support former President Donald Trump as the presidential election nears its final weeks.
A Quinnipiac University poll shows that overall, Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are locked in what is virtually a dead heat, given that the support for either is well within the 2.4 percentage point margin of error for the survey of 1,728 likely voters nationwide taken between Sept. 19 and Sept. 22.
The survey showed that in a four-way race, Trump led Harris 52 percent to 44 percent among Hispanic voters and in a two-way race, Trump was on top 52 percent to 46 percent.
Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said at this point, which side gets its supporters could well tell the tale.
“On the backstretch of the race to Election Day, all eyes are on which candidate can best stoke their supporters’ enthusiasm all the way to the finish line. A slight shift suggests the Harris crowd is not roaring as loudly as it was last month,” he said.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump has succeeded in gaining Hispanic support by ignoring the Republican playbook that called for weakening the party’s position on immigration to court Hispanic voters.
Instead, trump’s focus on the economy has connected.
“What the Republican Party did wrong was to believe the trends of the older generation would transfer to their kids,” Abraham Enriquez, founder of Bienvenido, which recruits Hispanics for the GOP, said.
“English is our first language, and we don’t care about the idea of representation at the top of the ticket. We care more about economic policies, what is going to help us start a family and buy a home,” he said. --->READ MORE HERE
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