Latino voters in Florida favor Republican candidates over Democrats in this year's midterm election, according to a recent Spectrum News/Siena College Poll.
were held today, 52% of Latinos said their vote would be for Rubio, while 37% named Demings as their choice candidate.
Florida Democratic Senate candidate Val Demings and incumbent Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio The poll also found that the majority of Hispanic voters have a more favorable opinion of former President Donald Trump than of current Democratic. A total of 61% have an unfavorable opinion of Biden, while only 37% of Latino voters in Florida, historically a perennial swing state, view Biden in a positive light.
Nearly 50% of Latino voters in the Sunshine State are fond of Trump, whose Florida residence was recently raided by the FBI, while 46% have an unfavorable opinion of the former president.The new polling data reflects an apparent demographical shift among Latino voters this cycle, a group that historically leaned Democrat, after Biden's economy tanked, gas prices spiked and violent crime surged in cities across the U.S.
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