CBS News
By Rebecca Kaplan
August 4, 2015
After
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came under fire for
saying Mexican immigrants were rapists and criminals, he insisted it
would not hurt him with the
Hispanic community. "I love the Mexican people. I've had a great
relationship with Mexico and the Mexican people," the businessman and
reality television star said. "I'll win the Latino vote," he proclaimed.
Not
if Latino voters have anything to say about it, apparently. A new poll
by The Wall Street Journal, NBC News and Spanish language broadcaster
Telemundo found that 75
percent of a group of 250 Hispanic adults polled said they had a
negative view of Trump. Just 13 percent said they had a positive view.
Despite
an outcry about his description of Mexican immigrants from fellow
Republicans and the Latino community, Trump refused to apologize. The
poll offered Hispanic respondents
a variety of reactions to his comments, and 55 percent of those
surveyed said Trump's words were "insulting and racist and have no place
in a campaign for president."
Another
three in 10 said he was raising an important issue, but should have
been "more careful" in his choice of words. Fourteen percent said they
admired him for addressing
an important problem and said it took "guts" to say "exactly what was
on his mind."
Republicans
cannot afford to lose three-quarters of Hispanics, one of the
fastest-growing voting groups in the United States. The party's 2012
presidential nominee, Mitt
Romney, earned just 27 percent of the Latino vote in the U.S. During
the primary election, he had had advocated for "self-deportation" as an
immigration policy. Trump, by comparison, said on CNN last week that he
would deport all of the more than 11 million
immigrants living illegally in the U.S. and then allow some to return
with legal status.
In
the poll, half of Hispanic respondents said Trump's beliefs about
Mexican immigrants were his alone and not representative of the party.
Another 29 percent said he
was speaking for most of the GOP.
Trump
wasn't the only one to get bad news in the Wall Street Journal/NBC News
poll. It also found that both former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, one of the
top-polling Republican
candidates, and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton are losing
support among primary voters and among key demographics within their
respective parties.
The
percent of Democratic primary voters who said they would vote for
Clinton has dropped from 75 percent in June to 59 percent in July at the
same time as Independent
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has seen his support tick up from the 15
percent to 25 percent.
Bush,
who held a 5-point lead over the second-place candidate, Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker, in June now finds himself in third place with 14 percent
of Republican primary
voters saying they would vote for him if the election were held today.
Both Walker (15 percent) and businessman Donald Trump (19 percent) have
overtaken him in the polls.
Clinton
now has more voters holding a negative impression of her than a
positive impression, and that growth in negative views been especially
pronounced among women.
Bush has seen his support slip among the most conservative voters, as
well as those who care the most about gun rights, right to life issues
and the Tea Party.
For more information, go to: www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com
No comments:
Post a Comment