Confidence that African Americans, Asians and Hispanics have in their personal finances improving over the next four years should be enough to help GOP leaders retain control of Congress in the midterm elections and reelect President Trump, according to a new survey.
While generally not fans of the president, the three key groups have a good feeling about their future and that should temper their concerns at the polls, said the survey from Zogby Analytics.
“Even though President Trump receives little support from these groups, things might be going just good enough economically that he can scrap enough support from these groups, so that Republicans can retain control of Congress and Trump gets re-elected in 2020,” said the Zogby Poll.
As with most elections, voters are most concerned about the national economy — and their own.
Zogby found a split on those two issues.
“Majorities of Hispanic, Asian and African American voters sampled disapprove of president Trump, and do not feel the economy is going to be good over the next four years. It’s no surprise that each group is not too optimistic about the economy, and does not approve of Donald Trump. What’s interesting is that some Asian and Hispanic likely voters think things are going good economically, and are optimistic about their personal finances the next four years,” said Zogby.
And Zogby found the same among African Americans. For example, among blacks, only 25 percent said the economy would do well the next four years. But when it came to their personal situation, 46 percent said their finances would be better.
The poll analysis added, “A quarter of African Americans say their finances are better off than compared to four years ago and 46 percent think their finances will be better in four years.”
