Kamala HarrisVice President of the United States and Democratic candidate, leads by 16 points in voting intention among the Latino community to former President Donald Trumpwho last June had a 2-point lead over President Joe Biden among those voters.
A Suffolk University surveypublished this Thursday, shows that a total of 18 percentage points of Latino voters switched sides after President Biden dropped his candidacy and nominated to Kamala Harris.
In the poll, which was conducted Aug. 25-28 in all 50 states and the District of Columbia among 1,000 registered voters, Harris beats Trump with 47.6 percent (43.3 percent) among all respondents.
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David Paleologos, director of the Center for Political Research at Suffolk University in Boston, stressed in a statement that “the youthsthe people of color and the homes of low income have turned drastically towards the Vice President“.
The arrival of the vice president to the presidential race has not only boosted the Support from Latino voters towards the Democratic bet.
Among the young people aged 18 to 34Trump had an 11-point lead in June, but in August the balance has tipped in his favor. Harris (13 points more than the Republican), a swing of a total of 24 points.
Another change that was recorded was between the people who earn less than 20 thousand dollars a year. The Republican candidate was ahead of the Democrats by 3 points in June, now The Democrat gets 23 points difference between that group.
Harris also came back 17 points in African American voterswho are generally considered democrats.
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The undecided They still have in their hands valuable votes to define the winner of next November 5, with a 4.8 percent of people who has not yet decided on a candidate, according to the survey, which has a margin of error of +/-3.1 points.