New multistate polling of Latino voters shows that the substitution of Kamala Harris for Joe Biden atop the Democratic ticket plays well nationwide and in Florida.
Equis Research conducted surveys of 2,183 registered voters who identify as Hispanic or Latino in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas. The group says the polling between July 22 and Aug. 4 suggests a “Latino reset.”
And that reset extends to the Sunshine State, according to Carlos Odio and Maria Di Franco Quiñonez. Harris is running 9 points ahead of Biden in Florida among Latino voters, who will play an important role in this election.
And the trend plays out throughout the battleground map.
“Harris does nine points better in Pennsylvania than Biden was doing, 10 points better in Arizona, 12 points in Nevada, and 13 points better in Texas,” the analysis noted.
Across the map, Harris enjoys 60% support with Hispanics under the age of 40, while Biden was mired at 43%. She’s at 59% with women, and 51% with men, gains of 10 points and 9 points, respectively.
Additionally, and worryingly for Trump, the Vice President is picking up support across the political spectrum.
“While liberals have moved the most, with Harris doing 16 points better with them than Biden was, she is also doing 12 points better among moderate Latinos and seven points better among conservative Latinos,” the analysis added.
And among those “double haters” who have disdain for both major party candidates, Harris has the edge over the man who has dominated political discourse for close to a decade, with 65% support among that group, 11% saying they back Trump and the others not verbally committing to either side.
All told, Equis asserted that “the strong start from Harris appears to have forestalled some of the most outlandish scenarios for the Latino vote,” which included Trump driving a historic realignment.
“Out the gate, the Vice President has quickly amassed the support of a wide swath of discontented Hispanic voters, and she still has running room. What those last Latino voters do could determine the overall result in hotly contested states.”
–A.G. Gancarski, Florida Politics
Mike says
Wake up people! You are inviting a socialist government over a Free Country!
Ray W. says
Hello Mike.
You might be right. Then again you might be wrong. I can’t predict the future. I doubt that you can, either, particularly when you present as someone who does not know what he is talking about. So long as we are a nation of laws, checks and balances will keep us from the flaws of communism or socialism.
I can’t help but recall the 87-year-old Chicago Tribune editorial lambasting the newly implemented Social Security Act as communism writ large. Socialism, communism, the dogs just keep barking at phantoms and ghosts and it never happens.
Once again, the closest we ever came in my lifetime to communism (governmental control over production, distribution, wages and centralized planning) was when Nixon signed an executive order freezing prices and wages in his effort to bring the stagflation from 1968 to 1983 under control. The closest thing we ever came to socialism (government taking control of certain sectors of production) was when Obama placed government economists and business experts on GM’s board of directors in exchange for GM receiving TARP funds during W’s Great Recession. There’s been a lot of huffing and puffing, tearing of hair, ranting and raving. SSDD.
As an aside, I got my wife a Ritter’s large Glacier yesterday. She hadn’t asked for one in a while. The large serving looked smaller than before, and it cost more. She just told me that the double order of Reese’s cups was a smaller portion than previous servings. Is it greedflation? Trudenomics? Trudenflation? Milk prices up because of avian flu spreading across the country and crossing over into dairy herds? Or the true cause: the pandemic and its myriad economic upheavals that remain with us all today!
DaleL says
Mike, I take it you must support the Libertarian Party. I also think that some aspects of the Libertarian Party platform is good. Libertarians want to drastically reduce government. However, I also like socialist programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Thankfully we still live in a representative republic in which we can secretly vote for the people we want to represent us. There is one individual who, based on the events of January 6, 2021 and subsequent reporting, wants to ignore our Constitution and our right to elections.
I shall vote for Country over Party; I shall vote for honesty, decency over claimed policy.