Donald Trump Garners Support From Young Latino Men In Arizona
Joe Biden's lead among Latinos in the key state of Arizona seems stable, but his opponent Donald Trump is garnering marginal support from younger Latinos, particularly men, a new poll suggests. With young Latino men inching towards the president, winning the state would be harder than the former veep would have expected.
Biden garnered an impressive 62 percent of Latino support with Trump trailing with 29 percent, which is still 1 percent ahead of Hillary Clinton's showing in 2016 exit polls with the voting bloc, according to a poll conducted by Democratic Latino research firm Equis Research. While Biden leads among Latinos of all ages, Trump seems to be garnering popularity among young Latino men, receiving 42 percent.
When compared, Biden tops Trump with young Latinas 69 percent to 16 percent, older Latinas 67-25 percent, and older men 64-34 percent. In other words, 64 percent of Latinos in the battleground of Arizona disapprove of Trump.
The state's growing Latino population, which is primarily of Mexican descent, is one of the main reasons the state is likely to swing to Democrats on Election Day for the first time since 1996. Moreover, the changed attitude of white college-educated voters in the outskirts of Maricopa County, and the president himself, have contributed to Arizona's changing political outlook, POLITICO reported.
Biden has an opportunity to boost his support among Latinos in Arizona in the last fifty days before the election, according to the co-founder of Equis Research Stephanie Valencia. The company had hired GBAO Strategies to conduct these polls.
Valencia suggests there's a lot of room for Biden to continue making his case to younger Hispanic men who are likely to be intrigued by Trump but aren't totally sure about voting for him yet. Interestingly, Trump's support increased by 8 points among Latinos in the state compared with his 2019 average in four waves of Equis polling.
Following the recently concluded events in Nevada, the president held a Latino roundtable in Phoenix on Sept. 14. Valencia says the shift to Trump's intrigue is due to his business personality.
Latino men, aged under 50 proved to be the greatest statistical bump for the president since Equis’ poll from May. The rise in popularity among young Latino men for Trump is likely to be an outcome of a smaller subsample, Valencia suggested.
Even if the actual change were half the size, she said, the conclusion would still imply that young men have been increasingly inching toward Trump. Although a noteworthy 40 percent say they are supporting Trump today, Valencia said, adding that only 26 percent rated themselves to be sure about supporting him on Election day.