Wall Street Journal
By Janet Hook
August 3, 2015
Donald
Trump’s campaign message isn’t playing well among Hispanics, a growing
voting bloc that Republican leaders have been hoping to woo, a new poll
by The Wall Street
Journal, NBC News and Spanish language broadcaster Telemundo has found.
The
poll of 250 Hispanic adults found that 75% had a negative view of Mr.
Trump, the real-estate mogul who announced his campaign for the GOP
presidential nomination mid-June.
Some 13% said they had a positive view of Mr. Trump.
An
outspoken opponent of illegal immigration, Mr. Trump drew wide
criticism for suggesting that Mexico is sending migrants to the U.S. who
are rapists and criminals.
Offered
a series of possible reactions to those comments, 55% of Hispanics
surveyed said the remarks were “insulting and racist and have no place
in a campaign for president.”
Nearly
3 in 10 said Mr. Trump was raising an “important issue” but should have
been “more careful with the language he used.” An additional 14% was
more admiring, saying
Mr. Trump had “guts to say exactly what was on his mind about an
important problem we need to address.”
Hispanics were also asked whether they believed Mr. Trump’s views were widely shared by other Republicans.
Half
said they believed the comment was just Mr. Trump’s belief and “not
shared by most Republicans.” However, 29% said he was speaking for most
Republicans.
Support
for cracking down on illegal immigration runs strong among the GOP’s
conservative base, but other Republicans are worried that hard-line
rhetoric contributes to
the party’s difficulty in winning support among Hispanics.
Republican
Party leaders have stepped up efforts to increase the party’s outreach
to Hispanics since 2012, when the party’s presidential nominee, Mitt
Romney, drew 27%
of the Hispanic vote. That was the smallest share for any GOP nominee
since 1996.
In
a companion Journal/NBC poll of a broader group of 1,000 adults,
Hispanic and non-Hispanics, the survey found many Republicans believe
that Mr. Trump isn’t helping
the party. Asked whether Mr. Trump is helping or hurting the Republican
party image, 47% said he hurt, 35% said he helped.
Both
polls were conducted July 26-30. The poll of 1,000 adults had a margin
of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. For the survey of 250
Hispanics, the margin
of error was plus or minus 6.2 percentage points.
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