RFK Jr. pulls from Biden more than twice than Trump among Latino voters
By
Annabella Rosciglione
June 12, 2024 10:27 am
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is gaining ground with Latino voters, which could prove troublesome for President Joe Biden as he tries to rebuild his 2020 coalition.
Voto Latino, an election advocacy group, polled 2,000 Latino voters in five critical states, Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada, Texas, and Pennsylvania, and found around a fifth of voters preferred a third-party candidate. While the poll shows Latino voters are pulling support from both Biden and former President Donald Trump, the trend might be felt harder by the Biden campaign since Latinos generally view the Democratic Party more favorably than the Republican Party.
“One of the reasons Voto Latino went into the field to conduct this extensive poll of over 2,000 Latino voters in key battleground states was that we kept hearing the narrative Latinos were leaving the Democratic Party and going to Trump,” Voto Latino President Maria Teresa Kumar told the New York Times. “And that just didn’t make any sense, so we dug in deeper.”
“And what we found was that while they are in support of Biden’s policies, they are not in support of his perceived handling of the economy. As a result, we find that not only were people defecting and going to a third party, RFK being the principal one, but it was women/Latinas that were doing so,” she continued.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3038963/rfk-jr-pulls-from-biden-more-than-twice-than-trump-among-latino-voters/
