Shockwaves ran through the White House earlier this month when a Siena College/New York Times poll showed President Biden trailing former President Donald Trump among Hispanic voters.
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at El Portal restaurant Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Phoenix.
In Nevada, Mr. Biden leads Mr. Trump by just two percentage points, 42-40, in a new survey by the conservative-leaning American Principles Project. He said he followed through on his vow to fill his cabinet with Latino voices, including Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and highlighted his campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who is the granddaughter of civil rights leader Cesar Chavez.His approval rating among Latinos nationwide, which, according to the Pew Research Center, stood at 74% in 2021, is now just 32%. It’s not that they’re eager for Mr.
“I think a lot of immigrants, specifically in the Hispanic community, are very much pro-business, pro-entrepreneurship, and they’re not, you know, into the rhetoric about eating the rich or taxing the rich more,” said Carlos Alfaro, a Latino immigrant and policy advocate in Arizona. “When it comes to first and second-generation voters, I still think that that kind of language is pushing people away because they know someone that is in business, or they are in business.
Hispanics are projected to account for about 15% of the vote nationally in November, though they will be a much larger share in places like Arizona, Nevada and Florida, where Pew figured they were at least 22% of eligible voters in the last midterm congressional elections. Alfonso Aguilar, director of Hispanic Engagement at the American Principles Project, said Democrats have become too extreme for the community.
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