The majority of Latino voters reject the mass deportations proposed by the president-elect, the Republican Donald Trumpand 63% voted for the vice president, Kamala Harrisa higher proportion than announced last week, according to a survey revealed this Tuesday.
More than half a dozen Latino organizations published the conclusions of the survey conducted between October 18 and November 4 among 3,750 Hispanic voters, in which eight out of ten support the approval of a law to provide permanent legal status to undocumented immigrants. long standing.
The survey included representative samples in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as California, Florida and Texas), including 800 Puerto Rican voters.
“We have to start telling the full story about this election”he said at a press conference Melissa Moralespresident of We are Votersone of the organizations behind the survey.
The survey found that although Trump achieved an increase in support among Latinos, this does not mean that voters in this community support his most radical proposals on the immigration issue.
“A supermajority rejects mass deportations” he stressed Clarissa Martínez de Castrovice president of the UnidosUS Latino Vote Initiative.
80% of Hispanic voters said they supported passing a law to provide permanent residency to undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for a long time, including “dreamers,” known as those immigrants who were brought to the country when They were children.
71% of Hispanic voters support passage of a bipartisan border security bill, which failed in the Senate last February and restricts asylum, increases the number of Border Patrol agents and asylum officers, and expands the security of the border between the United States and Mexico.
In that sense Vanessa Cardenasexecutive director of America’s Voicenoted that the survey makes clear that “Trump does not have a mandate for mass deportations or sending the Army to arrest our immigrant neighbors or family members.”
The analysis of the poll found that although the president-elect registered an increase in the Latino electorate, the Democratic campaign obtained the majority in the states surveyed except Florida.
In general, 63% of Latinos voted for Harris compared to 37% for Trump, a figure much higher than that revealed last week by exit interviews conducted by NBC.
The organizations’ survey, which is part of the American Voter Survey sampling, found that the majority of Hispanic men voted for Harris (51%-48%), and a large majority of Hispanic women (66%-32% ).
The weight of the Latino vote
In that sense, Martínez warned that the exit polls of the main parties “were wrong” in the support of Hispanics, and that is a recurring problem in sampling.
He also stressed that there is “a dissonance” between the candidate’s choice and the political positions of his party, with much greater support for the policies supported by Democrats than for their candidates.
“For Republicans, the message is that many of the policies in their platform are rejected by a majority of American voters, including Latino supermajorities,” Martínez stressed.
Among Latino subgroups, the highest level of support for Harris was among Puerto Ricans (65%), followed by Mexican Americans (63%). The greatest support for Trump was from Cuban Americans (54%).
For Frankie Miranda, executive director of the Hispanic Federation, the results of the election showed that “we must invest” in Latino voters if the parties want that vote to be present.
«They can no longer ignore us or take it for granted. With sufficient and substantial resources, Latinos can mobilize in unprecedented numbers,” said the activist.
The poll found voters’ top concern was the cost of living and inflation, at 52%, followed by jobs (36%) and affordable housing (27%).
“This election was a referendum on the economy, and while Harris managed to close the gap on the economy, an issue of utmost importance to Latinos, in a very short period, in the end it was not enough to overcome a shift to the right that “It devastated the country,” Morales said.
The activist considered that Latino voters cannot be blamed for the result of the election. EFE (I)
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