In Tight U.S. Presidential Race, Latino Voters’ Preferences Mirror 2020
For Latino voters, the economy is the top issue, followed by health care, violent crime and gun policy
By Mark Hugo Lopez and Luis Noe-Bustamante, PEW Research
Sept 24, 2024
As the final leg of the presidential campaign begins following an eventful summer, a majority of Latino registered voters (57%) say they would vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and 39% would vote for former President Donald Trump, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Aug. 26-Sept. 2, 2024.1
Harris performs substantially better among Latino voters than President Joe Biden did when he was the likely Democratic nominee. In July – after the first presidential debate but before Trump was injured in a shooting at a campaign rally – equal shares of Latino voters said they would vote for Biden as for Trump (36% each) while 24% favored Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a two-way matchup, 51% of Latino voters said in July that they’d support Biden and 46% said they’d back Trump – a narrower margin for Biden than for Harris today.
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