Poll: Trump’s negatives among Hispanics rise; worst in GOP field

[sinkspur]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2016/02/25/poll-trumps-negatives-among-hispanics-rise-worst-in-gop-field/

Poll: Trump’s negatives among Hispanics rise; worst in GOP field

By Dan Balz and Scott Clement

February 25 at 7:00 AM   

Donald Trump has used the issue of immigration to help make himself the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, but his harsh rhetoric also has earned him the highest negative ratings among Hispanic voters of any major GOP hopeful, according to a Washington Post-Univision News poll............

....Strongly negative views of Trump have intensified over the past seven months, as the New York billionaire has repeatedly pressed his call to build a wall along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border and seek to deport undocumented immigrants currently residing in the country.

Today, 8 in 10 Hispanic voters have an unfavorable view of Trump. That includes more than 7 in 10 who have a “very unfavorable” impression of him, which is more than double the percentage of any other major candidate.

Those findings compare with a Univision survey taken around the time of Trump’s announcement last summer, when just more than 7 in 10 had a negative view of him and fewer than 6 in 10 said they had a “very unfavorable” impression.......

....The Post-Univision survey tested those four GOP candidates against Clinton and against Sanders. While all trail badly among Hispanics at this point, Trump does the worst — losing the Hispanic vote to Clinton by 73 to 16 percent. That 57-point gap is little changed from a 54-point deficit recorded last June, but is significantly wider than the 44-point margin by which former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney lost Hispanics four years ago and bigger than in any presidential exit poll since the 1970s.......

......Republican efforts to win a general election hinge in part on whether the party’s nominee can attract a larger share of the Hispanic vote. The alternative is to find additional support among white voters to offset expected losses among Hispanic voters.

The Republican Party and other candidates for the nomination have escaped significant collateral damage from Trump’s candidacy thus far. More than 6 in 10 Hispanic voters said Trump’s views on immigration are not representative of the Republican Party overall.....

.........Trump’s weaker support against Democrats in general election matchups spans demographic groups but is sharpest among Republican-leaning Hispanics. In a matchup with Clinton, 88 percent of Republican-leaning Hispanics said they would support Rubio and 80 percent would support Cruz, but only 59 percent would support Trump against Clinton.....

[GAJohnnie]

Right, check the results in NV. Seems this poll data does not matched the actual vote data

[libertybele]

I don't think immigration is the issue that the Hispanics have with Trump.  He's brutally going after two Latino candidates.  What did he expect?

[flowers]

How is he doing with the muzzie vote? CAIR said they are going to out vote us.

[sinkspur]

Right, check the results in NV. Seems this poll data does not matched the actual vote data

This is a national poll and includes ALL Hispanics, Dem and Repub.

Trump cannot win with an 80% disapproval among Hispanics.

[GAJohnnie]

got it, ignore the real voting data, cling to the media narrative.

[HonestJohn]

Right, check the results in NV. Seems this poll data does not matched the actual vote data

[Fishrrman]

Folks, don't worry about this.

The "Hispanic vote" doesn't matter all that much, in those states where it really matters for us.

[NavyCanDo]

The NV Hispanic votes Trump brags about like the moderator says is among NV Republican Hispanics. On the national scene among all eligible Hispanic voters, he gets slaughtered. 

[Longiron]

Folks, don't worry about this.

The "Hispanic vote" doesn't matter all that much, in those states where it really matters for us.

Trump does well with the legal Hispanics. Wonder why he does not do well with the illegals? The Haters can answer that?

[sinkspur]

Folks, don't worry about this.

The "Hispanic vote" doesn't matter all that much, in those states where it really matters for us.

The Hispanic Vote matters.

No Republican can be elected to the presidency unless he gets 40% of the Hispanic vote.

Trump has 16%.

He can't win.

[Fishrrman]

sinkspur wrote:
"No Republican can be elected to the presidency unless he gets 40% of the Hispanic vote.
Trump has 16%.
He can't win."

Quite frankly, this is nonsense, pure and simple.

Did G.W. Bush get 40% of "the Hispanic vote" in states like New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California in 2000 or in 2004?

Of course not, because he didn't win in those states, anyway.

The ONLY states where "Hispanic votes" really come into play for Republicans are:
- Texas (in which even a large share of the [legal] Hispanics are conservative)
- Florida (in which many of the Hispanics are Cuban, who tend to be more conservative)
- Arizona (but whites there are conservative enough to as yet "overpower" Hispanic voters)

Something like 50% of -ALL- Hispanics in America are concentrated in liberal blue states in which Republicans don't have much chance of winning in almost ANY election any longer.
Actually, Trump may change this -- he just might have the horsepower to win in New York and possibly New Jersey as well.

Again, my original statement stands:
In this election, "the Hispanic vote" remains unimportant to Republicans.

IF we can win, this time it will be WITHOUT help from "the Hispanic vote".

[sinkspur]

Sorry Fish, you're wrong.

Bush garnered 44% of Hispanic voters nationwide.  McCain got 32%, Romney 27%.

You just go right on believing Hispanic voters don't matter in this election, especially since they will constitute 12% of the voting population.

Trump is going to be shredded by the Democrats.  Rubio and Cruz showed them exactly how to do it last night.