2016 Electoral Map Predictions: It's Trump vs. Clinton and the Former Senator Would Win Based on Today's Poll Numbers Plus Swing Stages Identified
Donald Trump's rise as the presumptive Republican nominee is already showing signs of paying dividends. It's just not the kind of swing GOP leaders were hoping for.
A new Cook Political Reports Electoral College projection map finds 11 key states have moved toward the Democratic column in the hours since Trump cemented his status as the new face of the GOP.
Pollsters found both Colorado and Florida have gone from being up in the air to favoring Democrats, while Pennsylvania, Florida and Wisconsin are leaning more democratically than ever. In addition, North Carolina has gone from favoring the GOP to now being undecided and Georgia and Arizona are now leaning less Republican than earlier polled.
Indiana has now also gone from solid Republican to likely Republican.
More States Could be Among Those Flipping
And those in the know warn that could be only the beginning.
"With these changes, 190 Electoral Votes are in the Solid Democratic column, 27 are in Likely Democratic, and another 87 are in Lean Democratic - enough for a majority," researchers concluded. "Yet another 44 Electoral Votes are in Toss Up. Although Iowa, New Hampshire and Ohio could shift to Lean Democratic and Nevada could shift to Likely Democratic, we are holding off on changes in these states until we see more evidence."
The bottom-line is pollsters are already projecting Democrats will maintain residency in the White House, winning the Electoral College battle by a margin of 304-190.
Latinos Take Issue Trump's Talk of Mass Deportation
One of the primary reasons behind the dramatic shift seems Trump's growing unpopularity among Latino voters. A recent Washington Post-Univision survey found that four out of every five Latinos now has a negative image of Trump, who has vowed to massively deport millions of immigrants if he is elected and build a wall along the Mexican border to further keep them out.
Meanwhile, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton recently reaffirmed her commitment to comprehensive immigration reform, vowing to keep all President Barack Obama's executive actions on the issue firmly in place.
"We are a nation of immigrants, and I'm proud of it," she boomed during a recent campaign speech in California. "We are stronger together, and our diversity is one of our strengths," she added. "So if people condemn or scapegoat or criticize or demagogue about immigrants, I wonder: Where are they living?"
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