Clinton Leading Trump By Huge Margin Among Latino Voters

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has a big lead over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump among Latino voters, according to a new poll.

Latino Decisions, a political research group that was hired by the Clinton campaign in 2015 to poll Latino voters, according to the group’s website, found that 72 percent of Latinos prefer or lean towards Clinton, while 17 percent prefer or lean towards Trump.

The group also found that 80 percent of Latinos believe Trump’s campaign rhetoric “has encouraged Americans to be angry and hostile toward Latinos, Muslims, and immigrants.” In addition, 75 percent of Latinos polled by Latino Decisions disagree with the idea that “a wall between the United States and Mexico will make the American economy stronger.”

Although Latino Decisions is paid by the Clinton campaign, its polling numbers aren’t very different from other polls.

In August, a poll conducted by Florida International University and Adsmovil found that Trump had the support of only 13 percent of Latino voters in Florida, a key swing state with a heavy Latino population.

Those numbers were considered a “historical low for a Republican candidate,” said Eduardo Gamarra, co-author of the poll, reported Univision.

If those numbers reflect the political reality for Trump in November, it will be the lowest Latino support for a presidential nominee since Latino polling began in 1980, according to Pew Research.

It would also show that the GOP has been losing Latino support since President George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004, when he won 40 percent of the Latino vote, the highest for a GOP nominee. Since then, 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain won 31 percent and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney won only 27 percent.

But Trump found a more favorable opinion from Latino voters in a recent Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll, which found 18.4 percent of Latinos describe him as “very favorable” and 16.4 percent describe him as “somewhat favorable.”

But that same poll found 49 percent of Latino voters viewed Trump as “very unfavorable.”

Sources: Latino Decisions (2), Univision, Pew Hispanic, Boston Herald/ Photo Credit: Michael Vadon/Wikipedia