Hillary Clinton Destroys Her Rivals In The Fight To Win Over Hispanic Voters
Hillary Clinton has emerged as the top presidential pick among Hispanics voters, according to a new joint poll published by the Washington Post and Univision.
The Democratic front-runner currently commands the demographic on both sides of the political spectrum, with 39 percent of registered Hispanic voters saying they planned to vote for Clinton in the run-up to Super Tuesday. Clinton boasts a two-to-one lead over party rival Bernie Sanders, who is polling at 19 percent.
Among Hispanic Democrats, Clinton has an even stronger lead. She claims 57 percent of the vote, compared to Sanders’ 28 percent. Yet the results demonstrate a spike in support for Sanders in recent months. Last June, the Vermont Senator held just 3 percent of the Hispanic vote, compared to Clinton’s 73 percent.
The GOP’s ever-shrinking pool of candidates did not fare well in Thursday’s poll. Florida Senator Marco Rubio currently holds 8 percent of the total Hispanic vote, while Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are tied at 7 percent. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Ohio Governor John Kasich are polling at around 1 percent.
The joint survey was conducted last week by Republican polling firm the Tarrance Group and independent firm Bendixen and Amandi International, meaning the results were tabulated prior to Saturday’s Democratic caucus in Nevada. Although Clinton emerged from that particular contest victorious, it’s worth pointing out that she ultimately lost the Hispanic vote in Nevada by eight points.
Meanwhile, the findings of Thursday’s survey also somewhat contradict Donald Trump’s dubious, repeated assertions that “the Hispanics love” him far more than Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
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“Hillary was the worst secretary of state in the history of our country. I think that the person she doesn’t want to run against is me because I say it,” Trump told the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe last July. “I would beat Hillary and I’ll tell you what, a vote that I will win is the Hispanic vote… I’ll create jobs, and I’ll get the Hispanic vote … the Hispanics love me.”
According to pollsters, Trump’s reputation is actually in tatters among Hispanic communities. More than 70 percent of Hispanic voters harbored a “very unfavorable” view of Trump when he entered the presidential contest last summer. In the past seven months, that figure has shot up to 80 percent, which is more than double the percentage of any of his competitors.
Those negative views are expected to drastically impact the final results of November’s election.
After collecting the views of registered voters, the Post-Univision survey then went on to test each Republican candidate against potential Democratic nominees Clinton and Sanders.
Should Clinton end up running against Trump, pollsters say she’ll rake in at least 73 percent of the Hispanic vote, skating past Trump by 57 points. If the two candidates do face off against one another in November, that gap will dwarf the 44 percent margin with which President Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney among Hispanics in 2012.
The survey also concluded that Clinton would beat Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz by 30 and 38 points, respectively.
If Senator Bernie Sanders were to snag the Democratic nomination, he would beat Trump by a margin of 56 percent. Likewise, pollsters say Sanders would beat Rubio by 24 points and Ted Cruz by 33.
Whether voters will actually see such a match-up will depend largely upon the events that unfold in next week’s primaries.
According to RealClearPolitics, Hillary Clinton is expected to win every Democratic primary on Super Tuesday, bar Vermont and Massachusetts.
The Republican contest will be harder fought. Trump is predicted to take at least half of Tuesday’s delegates, while Senator Ted Cruz is commanding a formidable lead in his home state of Texas.
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