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Florida Hispanic voters strongly favor Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, according to a new poll, but she has yet to reach the level of support among Latinos that helped President Barack Obama win the battleground state — and reelection — four years ago.
The poll by Miami-based Bendixen & Amandi International and The Tarrance Group shows Clinton drawing 53 percent among Florida Hispanics, compared to Trump’s 29 percent. That’s a significant 24-point lead. But Obama hit 60 percent among Latinos in 2012, according to exit polls. He defeated Mitt Romney in Florida by a single percentage point.
“She should not only be where Obama is — she should be beating those numbers, and she’s not,” pollster Fernand Amandi told the Miami Herald. He conducted the survey for Univision and The Washington Post.
Trump is more disliked than Romney, who ended up with 39 percent of Hispanic support. Clinton has yet to fully capitalize on that unpopularity — perhaps because 46 percent of poll respondents consider the former secretary of state a “liar.”
Two third-party candidates, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, received 6 percent and 2 percent support in the poll, respectively.
The pollsters conducted interviews in English and Spanish of 400 Hispanic registered voters in Florida from Aug. 24-Sept. 3. The survey’s error margin is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
Clinton is also underperforming compared to Obama in three other heavily Hispanic swing states polled: Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.
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Photo credit: Al Diaz, Miami Herald staff
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