How popular is Donald Trump with Hispanic voters?
- 8 years ago
Donald Trump promised to build a wall along the southern border.
He’s referred to Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals.
He’s done much to alienate Latino voters, yet according to some polls, he’s running ahead of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney among them.
Online NBC News and SurveyMonkey polls have Trump winning just under a third of the Hispanic vote, more than Romney’s 27 percent against Obama.
"Some of these polls only have 100 or 80 Latinos in them, so the margin of error is plus-or-minus 10 points," said Matt Barreto, who is working for Hillary Clinton's campaign, focusing on surveying Latinos, and is the co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions.
Hispanics typically turn out at lower rates - 48 percent of eligible Latino voters casted ballots in 2012, compared to 67 percent of whites and 64 percent of blacks - making it more challenging, and more important, for pollsters to separate voters from non-voters.
He’s referred to Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals.
He’s done much to alienate Latino voters, yet according to some polls, he’s running ahead of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney among them.
Online NBC News and SurveyMonkey polls have Trump winning just under a third of the Hispanic vote, more than Romney’s 27 percent against Obama.
"Some of these polls only have 100 or 80 Latinos in them, so the margin of error is plus-or-minus 10 points," said Matt Barreto, who is working for Hillary Clinton's campaign, focusing on surveying Latinos, and is the co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions.
Hispanics typically turn out at lower rates - 48 percent of eligible Latino voters casted ballots in 2012, compared to 67 percent of whites and 64 percent of blacks - making it more challenging, and more important, for pollsters to separate voters from non-voters.