Newsweek, August 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is doing better with Latino voters than President Joe Biden was a few months ago, according to a poll. The Equis poll shows Harris is leading Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, by 19 points among registered Hispanic and Latino voters in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Harris had 56 percent versus Trump’s 37 percent.
A previous poll, conducted between May 16 and June 6—before the disastrous debate performance that led Biden to drop his reelection bid and endorse Harris—found the president leading by a slimmer 5-point margin, 46 percent to Trump’s 41 percent. Harris’ lead with these voters is therefore 14 points more than what Biden had.
The latest poll surveyed 2,183 registered voters who identify as Hispanic or Latino in 12 states, of which 1,242 were registered in the seven battleground states, between July 22 and August 4. The survey has a margin of error of 2.9 percent for the full sample and 3.7 percent for the seven states.
