Trump was doing historically well among Hispanic voters before Madison Square Garden rally backlash

CNN — Donald Trump ’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City featured numerous instances of speakers making racist or bigoted remarks . Perhaps none more notoriously so than comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s offensive comments about Puerto Rico.

What makes those remarks – which the former president’s campaign has sought to distance itself from – so noteworthy is they come at a time when Trump seems to be making inroads with Hispanic voters. In fact, he seems to be on his way to doing better with this group than any GOP presidential nominee since George W. Bush in 2004 .

Consider an average of recent polling data on Hispanic voters: Kamala Harris is ahead of Trump by just 13 points. That’s well off an average of post-election and exit poll data from 2020 , when Joe Biden carried Hispanic voters by 26 points.

What’s remarkable is that this 26-point deficit, itself, was an improvement for Trump from 2016. Trump lost Hispanic voters by 39 points to Hillary Clinton, according to an average of exit poll and post-election […]

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