Three in four voters of color ‘strongly’ dislike Trump

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post

By Vanessa Williams and Scott Clement June 20 at 7:02 AM

Despite Donald Trump’s insistence that he loves “the Hispanics” and “the African-American people” the feeling doesn’t appear to be mutual.

The Republican presidential nominee is deeply unpopular with voters of color, 88 percent of whom reported unfavorable views of the New York businessman, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released last week. That’s 29 percentage points higher than his 59 percent unfavorable rating with white voters.

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Looking at Trump’s new unfavorable numbers, combined with those from last month’s poll, 88 percent of African Americans and 87 percent of Hispanics have an unfavorable view of Trump, and more than three-quarters of each group had a “strongly unfavorable” view of him.

Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is almost as popular with voters of color as Trump is unpopular. Averaging the two most recent Washington Post-ABC News polls, Clinton has a favorable rate of 78 percent with African Americans and 70 percent with Hispanics. She is viewed favorably by 31 percent of whites.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/20/three-in-four-voters-of-color-strongly-dislike-trump/

[seabeckind]

1. I'm sure he is broken up over that.

So people who wouldn't have voted for him anyway won't vote for him?

And this is breaking news?

[sufrommich]

6. You don't think it's important that Trump is basically

down to angry white people voting for him? If that holds,we'll have a massive win for the history books.

[seabeckind]

7. Not to him.

Not to his base.

So you're putting so much emphasis to win over a demographic that already supports you?

Yeah, that's smart.

[sufrommich]

11. You seem to have a problem with negative Trump news.

[seabeckind]

14. You seem to have a problem obsessing over not-Trump.

This "news" is telling us nothing more than we have known for a long, long time.

It's SSDD.

Trump will always be a threat until YOU figure out what the threat really is.

Believe me, it's not his stealing minority votes.

How's this for a scenario? The people of his base feel like they are being screwed royally. They haven't been getting pay raises, they have a hard time paying bills, their life pretty much sucks.

Ok, you got that?

Trump is playing to that.

His solutions are really crappy. That is where the problem comes in and what needs to be attacked.

Yeah, I know it's all the people's fault cause they just can't see how great things really are.

[sufrommich]

17. I'll just leave you to your bitterness.nt

[seabeckind]

18. Yeah, that's it. I'll make a note of it.

Winning hearts and minds. That's the ticket.

My fault, I'm just bitter.

[joshcryer]

10. It's news because we're repeatedly told...

...that Trump is competitive against our presumptive nominee.

[seabeckind]

16. He's playing a different sport.

And in his sport he is very competitive. Very.

How many states did he carry in HIS primaries?

How many opponents did HE put down overwhelmingly?

You're denying the evidence directly in front of you.

I can't say anymore... otherwise.... tick-tock.

[joshcryer]

21. You want it both ways.

And are simply struggling with the utterly ridiculous contradiction.

These polls showing Trump being an epic failure aren't "relevant" to you.

In very much the same way Romney's skewed polls were so relevant to him.

[dembotoz]

2. which helps explain gop efforts to reduce minority votes

perhaps trump is not the surprise they claim it was

[seabeckind]

3. They've only been at that task since the civil war.

Voting Rights act was a little bump in the road but since the beltway ignores transgressions,

it doesn't really affect anything.

[Gore1FL]

4. I am shocked it's only 75%. nt

[NWCorona]

12. This!

[Nitram]

5. What's going on with the other 25%?

[EL34x4]

8. "She is viewed favorably by 31 percent of whites."

That's troubling. Actually, that's potentially disastrous.

[seabeckind]

19. ..

[joshcryer]

22. Romney got the largest share of whites since Regan.

And still lost.

[Helen Borg]

9. only 3 in 4? WTF?

[Sunlei]

13. Republicans built that!

[keithbvadu2]

15. But Trump says Blacks and Hispanics will vote for him in yoooge numbers.

A large majority.

They love him.

[redwitch]

20. The rest hate him with every fiber of their beings.

[adigal]

23. That's all? I'm surprised it's not 9 out of 10 nt

[sarae]

27. That's what I was thinking...

Minority surrogates and minority celebrity supporters make more sense – they're probably either paid or blackmailed to support him. I wouldn't put anything past him.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

24. I need to have a conversation with that 4th voter. Geez!

[IronLionZion]

25. I've encountered minorities for Trump

and they are completely insane on many levels.

As far as policies go, they think he is pro-business and anti-Muslim and that his completely impossible immigration policy will open up more jobs for American minorities somehow.

[David__77]

28. According to the poll, whites on average find Trump more favorable than Clinton

The split is 31/67 for Clinton and 43/55 for Trump. I know that white voters have gone Republican for a long time; still, I find it a somewhat striking thought that whites, according to the poll, find Trump more favorable on average.

If this were demographically the US of 1980, would Trump be much stronger against Clinton, or would other factors also necessarily be different, making her stronger in that situation? I don't know.