Posted on 08/14/2016 10:00:25 AM PDT by orchestra
New York’s Hispanic voters may have a secret soft spot for Donald Trump.
A new poll pegs support for Trump at 40 percent among Latino registered voters in the Empire State.
The results would be a major break from recent electoral history. Barack Obama took 89 percent of that demographic in his 2012 victory.
And, in a sign of continued electoral turmoil, 20 percent of registered Democrats plan to vote for Trump — while 21 percent of registered Republicans say they will go for Hillary Clinton.
Obama held on to 95 percent of New York’s Democrats in the last election.
“This definitely is one of the stranger election cycles in memory,” said Staten Island City Council member Joe Borelli, a Trump supporter. “But I think this does dispel some rumors about Trump’s numbers in certain communities.”
The survey found Clinton leading her GOP rival in New York by 14 percentage points, with minor-party candidates included.
But the former senator failed to gain a majority in her home state, pulling 48 percent of the vote overall, with Trump at 34 percent, Libertarian Gary Johnson at 6 percent, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein at 4 percent.
The Gravis Marketing poll for Breitbart News surveyed 1,717 New Yorkers from Aug. 4-8.
The Trump campaign launched a new offensive Saturday with a lengthy press release — and a list of dozens of recent news headlines — decrying Clinton’s “corruption, pay-to-play and flip-flops.”
Trump attended a Saturday fund-raiser in East Hampton hosted by Jets owner Woody Johnson, then headlined an evening rally in Fairfield County, Conn.
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“They hate, and I mean hate illegal aliens from south of the border.”
this really makes total sense, because illegal aliens depress wages for U.S. citizens, and the lower a person is on the social-economic scale, the greater the effect.
Personally, I never have believed that U.S. Hispanic citizens supported illegal immigration and those politicians who enable the open borders policies that allow unmitigated illegal immigration, because such policies are completely antithetical their own financial interests, so I’m not at all surprised about the results of this poll.
Sadly like the high level of support Trump is seeing in NC the GOP elite have no clue or rather they have no interest in winning over conservative minorities of which there are fairly large numbers that still end up in the Democrat column. Instead these elites want to appeal to minorities like Democrats and they insult the intelligence of the minorities they should be seeking to appeal to by assuming they are all looking for handouts or invested in the interests of illegal border crossing.
A Gravis poll is a real poll. Any internals available?
Latinos make up about 18 percent of the population in NY State.
Who would have thought Puerto Ricans and Dominicans don’t consider letting in more Mexican illegals as their top political priority?
I wish the tie ad (which is bad enough at undercutting Trump’s message) were all I was seeing here in FL during the Olympics. Probably worst of all is the ad from the mother of a dead soldier who emotionally tells the camera how horrifying she found it that Trump attacked another mother of a dead soldier. Then they show a very brief clip of Trump saying, “She was standing their quietly” (or something like that, which wasn’t even an attack, but they frame it as if it were something dreadful). I found it really disturbing that a mother of a dead soldier would lie and shill for the leftists, but I’m afraid that it might be the sort of ad that could have an emotional effect. I can’t wait till Trump starts taking back control of the narrative.
No; that is how we lose; Trump/Pence need to persuade them they are a better choice than Clinton. If they do that, New York is up for grabs. Trump is behind, but if he gets almost all the Republican vote percentage Romney got he will win.
I’ve said a couple of times he takes NY and I’m sticking to it...that’ll be all she wrote on election night.
Oh man, I have not seen that one. Hope I never do. Hope and pray all this backfires in their faces.
So Latino/Hispanic means some tribe that is not American that are allowed to vote in our elections.
“This can’t be right, how can he be at 40% of Hispanics and still only be at 34% total?”
Crackers.
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