Kamala Harris More Than Triples Gap With Hispanic Voters in One Month: Poll

Vice President Kamala Harris’ lead among Hispanic voters has more than tripled since she entered the 2024 presidential race, according to polling conducted by The Economist and YouGov.
While Republicans have gained momentum with Hispanic voters in recent election years, Harris’ candidacy has again tilted the crucial voting coalition toward Democrats since launching her campaign on July 21. According to a survey released Wednesday, Harris currently holds a 20-point lead (54 percent to 34 percent) among Hispanic voters compared to her GOP rival, former President Donald Trump. The poll includes responses from 1,368 U.S. registered voters who were surveyed between August 17 and 20.
Previous polls from The Economist/YouGov show that Harris’ lead among registered Hispanic voters is slowly increasing. In a survey released last week, the vice president was leading Trump 49 percent to 34 percent. At the start of the month, Harris was ahead 51 percent to 36 percent.
Harris’ 20-point gap is a significant jump from the lead she held among Hispanic voters in the first few days of her campaign. In an Economist/YouGov poll conducted between July 21 and 23, the vice president was winning among registered Hispanic voters 44 percent to 38 percent.
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Harris’ moment is a good sign for Democrats, given that President Joe Biden appeared to be losing Hispanic voters’ support earlier this year. According to a June survey by The New York Times/Siena College, the president was winning Hispanic voters by 1 percentage point over Trump (45 percent to 44 percent). In a survey conducted by the Times/Siena late last month, Harris was winning by 19 points over Trump (57 percent to 38 percent).
Polling by Equis shows that Harris has made similar gains among registered Hispanic and Latino voters in key battleground states. In a poll released last week, the vice president was leading trump 56 percent to 37 percent among the demographic in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
In a previous poll by Equis conducted between May 16 and June 6, Biden was leading Trump by 5 percentage points (46 percent to 41 percent) among Hispanic voters living in the crucial swing states.
Harris has also regained traction among Black voters since entering the 2024 race, another key voter coalition for Democrats that had been tipping toward Republicans’ favor earlier this year. According to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll released last month, Biden was earning 77 percent of the Black vote, a dip from the support he say in the 2020 election when 92 percent of Black voters backed him over Trump.
As of last week, per ABC/Washington Post/Ipsos’ polling, Harris is backed by 82 percent of Black voters nationwide.