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| Shock Poll: Trump Gains 19 Points with Latino Voters During Border Wall Shutdown |
| 2019-01-18 |
 h/t InstapunditIn the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released Thursday, President Donald Trump may have suffered some among Republicans overall, but he saw a huge point gain in a different demographic breakdown, and an unexpected one by conventional wisdom. In early December, the poll had Trump’s approval rating among Latino adults at 31%. The results from the poll released Thursday show the president’s job approval among Latino adults at 50%. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Trump did better in 2016 among Latino voters than any recent Republican presidential candidate except W. Legal immigrants and their children are as disgusted with the national disgrace that is tolerance of illegal immigration as anyone including Trump's base." |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-01-18 19:33 |
| #5 For what its worth, the caravans in the news recently were all from Central America. The bulk of Hispanics in the US are not. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-01-18 11:11 |
| #4 latino Americans are as disgusted with the allowing of the human trafficking and rape and murder of the people of South and Central America as the rest of us... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-01-18 10:20 |
| #3 Purely anecdotal, but the impression I had living in Houston was that recent immigrants were strongly Democratic based on free stuff and hand-outs. Once they were settled and got skin in the game, they turned more conservative. I also suspect that anyone who stood in line and jumped through all the hoops for the legal process would be a bit miffed at anyone taking shortcuts. #2 is a good point. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-01-18 09:42 |
| #2 An underexamined aspect of why latinos immigrate to the US: Some of them are moving away from undesirable neighbors. They don't want said same ex-neighbors moving next to them again... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-01-18 07:50 |
| #1 Suggested question for State of the Union speech: Senior-Senorita, te sientes mejor.... about your life and economic standing now, than you did two years ago ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-01-18 07:25 |