2016 Presidential Race Polls: GOP, Donald Trump Deeply Under Water With Latino Voters, New Poll Finds
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll finds that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and the Republican Party are extremely underwater with Latino voters.
According to MSNBC, 75 percent of Latinos indicated they have a negative view of the outspoken Trump, with 67 percent classifying their feelings as "very negative."
Over the course of his campaign, Trump has consistently advocated for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. At one point, he boasted that if he is elected president, it would take him less than two years to deport the U.S. of some 11 million immigrants.
In addition, Trump has ridiculed Republican rival Jeb Bush over his overall stance on the issue and for previously speaking Spanish at various campaign events.
Overall, the GOP is negatively viewed by more than 40 percent of Latinos, compared to just 24 percent who view the party in a favorable light. In contrast, the Democratic Party registered at 48 percent favorability among the nation's fastest-growing minority group, against just a 19 percent of would-be voters who view the party negatively.
Roughly 51 percent of all Latinos also indicate they'd prefer to see a Democrat succeed President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, against just 24 percent who are more inclined to have a Republican president.
As for other individual candidates, Bush essentially breaks even with Latinos in terms of favorability, with 29 percent of voters rating him in a positive light compared to 27 percent who see him in the negative. Fellow GOP candidates Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson have plus five and three ratings respectively.
Meanwhile, among Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden both have plus 29 ratings, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders stands at a plus 18.
In 2012, Obama scored 71 percent of the Latino vote, to just 27 percent for then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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