Harris leads Trump among Latinos, but race is much tighter in English-dominant households

 A recent poll by Reuters/Ipsos found that V ice President Kamala Harris continues to have a comfortable lead over former President Donald Trump among Latino voters, with a 13-point lead. Another poll released on Wednesday by UnidosUS found the gap to be even wider, with Harris holding a whopping 27 point lead over the Republican candidate.

However, one of the most revealing insights from the UnidosUS poll conducted by BSP Research was that the gap between the candidates appears to shorten when taking into account the dominant language spoken in the Latino household polled.

In Spanish-dominant households, Harris has the support of 64% of Latino voters, with Trump receiving 30%. Among bilingual households, Harris leads with 54% support compared to Trump’s 33%. However, in English-dominant households, Harris’s lead narrows, with 51% backing her and 38% supporting Trump, a 21-point drop.

In an interview with NBC News , Clarissa Martinez de Castro, Vice President for Latino Vote Initiative at UnidosUS, explained that Latino voters who are more comfortable speaking in Spanish “see a higher […]

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