10-05-2017, 07:39 PM
One large segment of the American population (Hispanics):
President Donald Trump is in trouble with Florida Hispanics, a group that’s long been largely in sync with Republicans, with a poll released Wednesday finding two-thirds disapprove of his performance.
The Latino Victory Project/Latino Decisions poll found 64 percent of Hispanic adults in Florida disapprove of Trump’s performance. Just 36 percent approve.
While Trump is underwater among Florida Hispanics, with a net negative of 28 points, he’s faring slightly better in the Sunshine State than nationally. The same organization’s national polling found 76 percent of Hispanics nationwide disapprove of Trump’s performance and 24 percent approve — for a net negative of 52 points.
Many Hispanics think Trump is doing a worse job than they expected. Few think he’s doing better than expected.
There are some caveats: Leaders of the Latino Victory Project and Latino Decisions organizations who released the results on Wednesday have done work for Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 election to Trump. And they were joined on a telephone press conference by two Florida Democrats: U.S. Rep. Darren Soto from Orlando and Annette Taddeo, who won a special election in Miami-Dade County last week for the Florida Senate.
Soto, the state’s first Puerto Rican member of Congress, and Taddeo, the first female Hispanic Democrat elected to the state Senate, hope the findings buttress their view that their party is poised to make 2018 election inroads among Hispanics, thinking voters may be inclined to punish Republicans over dissatisfaction with Trump.
“This poll is significant because it’s proof that President Trump and the Republican Party are alienating Latinos of all backgrounds and all political stripes,” Soto said. “An attack on one of us is going to be an attack on all of us, and that’s starting to resonate with people.”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politic...story.html
President Donald Trump is in trouble with Florida Hispanics, a group that’s long been largely in sync with Republicans, with a poll released Wednesday finding two-thirds disapprove of his performance.
The Latino Victory Project/Latino Decisions poll found 64 percent of Hispanic adults in Florida disapprove of Trump’s performance. Just 36 percent approve.
While Trump is underwater among Florida Hispanics, with a net negative of 28 points, he’s faring slightly better in the Sunshine State than nationally. The same organization’s national polling found 76 percent of Hispanics nationwide disapprove of Trump’s performance and 24 percent approve — for a net negative of 52 points.
Many Hispanics think Trump is doing a worse job than they expected. Few think he’s doing better than expected.
There are some caveats: Leaders of the Latino Victory Project and Latino Decisions organizations who released the results on Wednesday have done work for Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 election to Trump. And they were joined on a telephone press conference by two Florida Democrats: U.S. Rep. Darren Soto from Orlando and Annette Taddeo, who won a special election in Miami-Dade County last week for the Florida Senate.
Soto, the state’s first Puerto Rican member of Congress, and Taddeo, the first female Hispanic Democrat elected to the state Senate, hope the findings buttress their view that their party is poised to make 2018 election inroads among Hispanics, thinking voters may be inclined to punish Republicans over dissatisfaction with Trump.
“This poll is significant because it’s proof that President Trump and the Republican Party are alienating Latinos of all backgrounds and all political stripes,” Soto said. “An attack on one of us is going to be an attack on all of us, and that’s starting to resonate with people.”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politic...story.html
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.