Clinton Would Crush Trump Among Latino Voters, Poll Finds

Trump insists that Hispanics love him, and the results of Tuesday’s Nevada caucus support that assessment.

But Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly pledged to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and says drugs and criminals are streaming across into the United States, would lose the Hispanic vote by an even greater margin than Mr. Romney – 73 percent to 16 percent to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and 72 percent to 16 percent to Sen. In fact, most Latino Republicans rallied behind Donald Trump yesterday evening, with the majority of Latinos voting for Trump. We won with poorly educated… and you know what I really am happy about, because I’ve been saying it for a long time, 46 percent were the Hispanics!

But the distinction is important because an overwhelming majority of Latino voters in Nevada are Democrats – 55 percent identify with that party, 29 percent say they are independents and 16 percent say they are Republicans, according to a recent poll by the firm.

We are only talking about the very small percent of Nevada Latinos who are Republican today.

Trump more or less swept the field with 46 percent of the vote and garnered 14 delegates.

In contrast, Latino presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio received 18 percent and 26 percent respectively. If Trump did win 45 percent of Latino voters on the night (and that’s a big “if” given the atrocious history entrance polls have at estimating subgroup votes, which Latino Decisions has also documented) then Trump won just 2,700 Latino votes… in the entire state. 1,573 Republicans voted in the caucus.

But that is the same amount some polls use to get their projections.

For one thing, said Enten, the sample size was extremely small.

“It’s self-identified, by the way” he added. “Lets give him credit were credit is due”, said Michael Smerconish, a conservative talk show radio host. He won across demographics.