Poll: Amid wall
fight, Latinos love Trump
Approval rating skyrockets during government shutdown
President Trump reviewing U.S. Customs and Border
Protection’s wall prototypes on the border in Otay Mesa, California. (Photo:
Customs and Border Protection)
Confounding conventional wisdom, a new poll shows
President Trump’s approval rating among Latinos has skyrocketed by 20 points
since the government shutdown over the border wall Republicans want to fund.
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll in early December showed
Trump at 31 percent among Latino adults.
But the latest Marist poll,
released Thursday, shows the president’s job approval among the same
demographic at 51 percent.
Remarkably, the poll indicated a jump in Latino approval
at the same time the president’s overall approval among Americans dropped 7
points since December.
Taken Jan. 10-13, 2019, the poll asked: “Do you approve
or disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president? [And, would you
say you strongly approve/disapprove of the job he is doing or just
approve/disapprove?]”
Among Latinos, 29 percent said “strongly approve” and
another 22 percent replied “approve,” for a total of 51 percent.
The poll found 41 percent of Latinos “strongly
disapprove” of the president’s performance.
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