It is repeated in each American election: the Hispanics have a key role in suffrage and each party tries to put this community in its camp. Traditionally, Democrats have a large advantage at this level and have the support of this precise demographic group.
According to the Pew Research Center, 61 % of Hispanic voters supported former President Joe Biden in 2020. Before him, Barack Obama had in 2012 received 71 % support from the community, and in 2016, Hillary Clinton had obtained 66 % of Hispanic votes. Turning in 2024: Kamala Harris could not obtain a big score with this community, 51 % of Hispanics supporting it against 48 % for Trump. For the Republicans, even beaten, it was already a great victory.
Donald Trump’s start to the mandate did not allow him to maintain such a high popularity in the ranks of the Hispanic community. Surveys showed that its popularity fell following its political choices in terms of immigration and economic difficulties that the country encountered.
Increasingly disturbing surveys for Donald Trump
We explained to you a few days ago that several surveys on a national scale showed a general loss of popularity of the former president. However, he will be able to rejoice today after the broadcast of a new survey carried out Tuesday by The Economist et YouGov and revealed by Newsweek. Indeed, according to this investigation carried out from July 11 to 14 with 1,680 American adult citizens, the popularity rating of Trump with Hispanics is booming.
Concretely, bad languages will say that the approval rate is still “only” 35 %. But the previous week, this rate was around 26 % and this 9 % increase is therefore quite significant. Future surveys will see if the American president can confirm this trend.
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How to explain this revival? The opinion of an expert
For Newsweek, the professor of political science at Columbia Robert Y. Shapiro delivers his impressions on this last rather favorable survey of Trump. “”If this increase is greater than for other groups, it is difficult to assess “he explains. Before specifying: “The popularity rating increases when the good news concerning presidents are more numerous than bad. I can only assume that this increase is due to the cumulative effect of good news concerning the Iranian bombing of nuclear installations. This is the best news that Trump recently received; The next one could be the last employment report. “
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