ELECTION/LATINOS/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s like chickens for Colonel Sanders. Why would any self-respecting Latino vote to re-elect President Donald Trump, arguably the most anti-Latino chief executive in U.S. history? That’s what my non-Latino friends want to know. I get that question all the time, often accompanied by a tilted head and a confused look. In the 2020 election, Trump seems likely to get between 25%-30% of the Latino vote. A recent poll by Telemundo found that 1 in 4 American Latinos would vote to re-elect him. In 2016, according to exit polls, Trump got 28% of the Latino vote. He did better than Sen. Bob Dole, who got 21% of the Latino vote in 1996, and Sen. Mitt Romney, who got 27% in 2012. But he couldn’t match Sen. John McCain, who got 31% of the Latino vote in 2008, or President George W. Bush, who got 40% in 2004. Anything north of 30% is a decent showing for a Republican, and anything beyond 40% will make a GOP candidate virtually unbeatable.”
–Ruben Navarrette Jr., “Millions of Latinos are Trump supporters. Here’s what they’re thinking.,” USA Today, November 26, 2019 8:02 am