Sep. 29, 2024 . MRC Latino

JONATHAN CAPEHART: I'm going to get, we're going to over time. But I am going to squeeze this one more question in and this is for you Maria. And this is from this CNBC-Telemundo poll, that shows the shrinking majority of Latino voters in favor of the Democratic candidate. And as we see, is that…

MARIA HINOJOSA: In favor of the Republican candidate.

CAPEHART: Well- this is the one, it's supposed to be with Vice President Harris at 54%. A 14 point lead. Is that it? The bottom number? Yeah. So there it is. The bottom number. So she has a 14-point lead but it has been shrinking after each consecutive presidential election from 2016. Why is that? Why is the Democratic share of the Latino vote shrinking?

HINOJOSA: And what I said to you when we asked the question was, Latinos want to be white. They want to be with the cool kids. They want to be- I'm asking Latinos all the time and they say,”well…ese Donald Trump es tan buen negociante. He’s such a good businessman. It’s like: no, he's not. He had bankruptcies. But they don't want to be identified with all of those other immigrants that Donald Trump speaks so badly of- including me as a Mexican immigrant. So they’re like: “we’d rather re- let’s be with him.” But those numbers? They could cost Kamala Harris the election. Everything that I’ve been saying that Latinos could push her over the top, these are the numbers that could also take her down.

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