Kamala Harris has neutralized Donald Trump’s advantage on the economy among Hispanic voters, and her 13-point lead among that group reflects the fact that they broadly prefer her approach to health care and climate change, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
On these latter issues, Hispanics prefer Democratic Vice President Kamala’s approach to that of former Republican President Trump by wide margins — 18 points on health care and 23 points on climate change.
A diverse and fast-growing slice of the U.S. electorate, Hispanics are an attractive target for both candidates in a race that was shaken up in July when Democratic President Joe Biden dropped out of his re-election campaign and handed the baton to Harris.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted Aug. 21-28, showed that the top issues for Hispanic registered voters ahead of the Nov. 5 election largely follow those of the nation overall, with the economy, immigration, health care and climate change standing out as the group’s top priorities.
While registered voters overall favor Trump’s approach to the economy over Clinton’s by 45% to 36%, Hispanic registered voters view them equally, with each receiving 39% support. That reflects an improvement for Democrats after a Reuters/Ipsos poll in May showed Biden trailing Trump by 4 points on the economy in the eyes of Hispanic voters.
Hispanic voters favored Kamala on health care policy, 46% to 29%, and on climate change, 46% to 23%, a larger lead than she had among the broader electorate, which also favored her on those two issues.
Trump maintained his lead on immigration policy, with Hispanic voters favoring him 42% to 37%, a smaller advantage than the 46% to 36% among the broader electorate.
“The Latino vote is probably the purest nonpartisan voter group in the United States right now and will be for a long time,” said Chuck Rocha, a Democratic strategist who advised Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign, including on outreach to Latinos.
Rocha said Kamala Harris, who is black and of South Asian descent and whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica and India, is winning over Hispanics by telling a life story that counters Trump’s strength on the economy, where he has a 20-point lead among white voters.
Many Hispanic voters have parents or grandparents who immigrated to the United States, and their below-average incomes have left them more vulnerable to rising U.S. inflation in 2021 and 2022.
The survey was conducted nationally and gathered responses from 4,253 U.S. adults, including 3,562 registered voters and 412 registered Hispanic voters. Margins of error were about 2 percentage points for voters overall and about 4 percentage points for Hispanics.
Hispanics made up about 14% of voting-age U.S. citizens in 2022, compared with 9% in Census Bureau estimates for 2005-2009. Biden won the Hispanic vote by 21 points in 2020, according to a Pew Research analysis of exit polls, so Harris’s current 13-point lead among Hispanic registered voters, if it holds through Election Day, would be a sign of improvement for Trump.
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