The majority of registered Latino voters in the United States are not happy with President Joe Biden’s job performance as the country heads toward the midterm elections, according to a poll released Thursday.
A Pew Research Center survey of Hispanic voters in August found that 54% disapproved of how Biden is handling his job, compared to 45% who approved. Additionally, 1 in 3 Democrats and voters who lean Democratic said they were unhappy with Biden.
It could spell trouble for the Democratic Party, given that Hispanics are the second-largest group of eligible voters in the country.
Among Hispanics, Catholics were far more likely to praise Biden, with 53% approving, compared to 29% of evangelical Protestant Christians. A solid 70% of evangelicals disapproved of Biden.
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Despite Biden’s low numbers with Hispanic voters overall, he fared better with Hispanic voters than registered voters generally, who gave him a 37% approval rating.
Nearly 3 in 4 Hispanics said they do not want former President Donald Trump to remain a national political figure. Nearly all Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, 94%, were over Trump, compared to 63% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters who want Trump to remain on the political scene.
Eight in 10 Hispanic voters are very concerned about the economy, outperforming all other issues.
Concern over abortion access jumped from 42% in March to 57% last month, the only issue of the dozen to see a double-digit spike. The change follows the Supreme Court decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, which angered abortion rights advocates and Democrats by walking back federal protections for abortion nationwide.
Just 4 in 10 people who identified with the Republican Party said Trump should run for office in 2024, with the remainder dealing him a blow.
In South Texas, three Latinas running for Congress as Republicans are courting lifelong Hispanic Democrats in hopes of winning over support to tip the scales to the Right.
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The terms Latino and Hispanic were used interchangeably in the Pew survey results.
The poll was conducted between Aug. 1 and 14 among 3,029 Hispanic respondents and 2,004 Hispanic registered voters. The surveys had margins of error of 2.7 percentage points and 3.2 percentage points, respectively.
