CHART: Democrats' Latino help in presidential races slipping given that Obama

Washington Examiner Staff

September 26, 06:30 AM September 26, 06:30 AM

Although Democrats enjoy an gain with Hispanic voters in local and nationwide elections, that assist has waned considering the fact that previous President Barack Obama still left workplace.

The proportion of Latino voters who forged their vote for a Democrat in a presidential election has steadily declined considering the fact that 2012, when Obama was elected to a next time period with 71% of the Hispanic vote, in accordance to national exit polling info compiled by the Roper Centre for General public Viewpoint Investigation. That determine has slowly lowered, with Democratic applicant Hillary Clinton garnering 66% of the Hispanic vote in 2016 and President Joe Biden capturing 65% in 2020.

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Comparatively, Republicans created constant gains coinciding with Trump moving into the political realm. The former president surprised Democrats with the inroads he produced with Hispanic voters in 2020, garnering 32% of the voting bloc — the greatest percentage a Republican presidential candidate has gained because George W. Bush in 2004, the details present.

Republican guidance between Hispanic voters peaked through the 2004 presidential election, when 44% of Latinos voted for Bush, whilst some scholars have argued the exit polling from that calendar year a bit overstates Bush's Hispanic assist.

Democratic support from the Hispanic populace peaked with previous President Jimmy Carter, in accordance to the Roper info. Carter garnered 82% of the Latino vote in 1976, at a time when Latinos only made up 2% of the voting electorate. His Latino aid fell to just 56% throughout his reelection bid in 1980. Considering the fact that then, aid has remained anywhere involving 60% and 70%, with the exception of only 53% voting for Democratic applicant John Kerry in 2004.

Latinos manufactured up 13% of the voting voters in 2020.