There have been scores of news stories over the past six months suggesting Donald Trump’s offensive comments about Hispanics will further damage the Republican Party’s already precarious position with Latinos.

Trump, of course, has refuted such statements and the harsh criticism he has received from many prominent members of the Latino community by claiming “Latinos love me” and predicting that he will “win the Latino vote” in November if he is the Republican nominee.  He often cites poll numbers showing him doing well with likely Latino voters in the GOP primary.

Trump’s national polling numbers, however, tell a much different story.  Gallup daily tracking polls, which interviewed over 2,000 Hispanics in July and August 2015, reported that this group holds an overwhelmingly negative opinion of Trump.  Indeed, Trump’s net Hispanic favorability rating (favorable minus unfavorable) was minus 51 in these summer Gallup Polls .

Likewise, a November 2015 Latino Decisions survey of residents in battleground states found Trump’s net favorability rating among Latinos to be minus 56.  And a Field Poll earlier this month showed a whopping 85 percent of Latinos in California have an unfavorable opinion of the Donald compared to just 10 percent who rate him favorably.

Read on, courtesy of The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/01/21/the-massive-gap-between-whites-and-latinos-in-how-they-perceive-donald-trump/