Hillary Clinton may be losing her edge over Donald Trump in national polls, but a new survey suggests the Democratic presidential hopeful’s advantage among Latino voters remains as strong as ever.
The former secretary of state leads Trump by 24 points or more in four key battleground states that could decide the fate of her Republican opponent’s presidential bid, according to a Univision News poll released Tuesday.
Clinton holds her biggest lead among swing state Latino voters in Arizona, where she is polling 50 points ahead of Trump — 68 to 18 percent. In Nevada, she carries a 46-point lead and in Colorado she draws 62 percent support to Trump’s 17 percent.
In Florida, where both candidates have faced with razor-tight polling margins this cycle, Clinton leads Trump 53 to 29 percent among Latino voters. Much of her advantage stems from the continued negative view most Latinos have of Trump.
The same poll found that eight out of every 10 Latino voters in Colorado, Arizona, Florida and Nevada view the GOP presidential nominee unfavorably, and only one-third believe he will follow through on his promise to deport all immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
Clinton suffers her own image problem when it comes to whether Latino voters view her as honest. In three of the four swing states, between 42 and 49 percent of Latinos consider the former first lady dishonest, while Latinos in Arizona were evenly split.
The survey of 1,600 registered Latino voters was conducted between Aug. 24-Sept. 3, during which Trump met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and made a direct appeal to Latinos during a speech in Tampa, Fla. Results contain a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percent.
