A new Wall Street Journal poll has discovered that Democrats are rapidly losing the Hispanic vote, and have also lost other key demographics.
Hispanic voters will be backing Republicans by 9 percentage points in the November 2022 midterm elections, a Wall Street Journal poll reported.
More Hispanic respondents said that they will be backing a Republican candidate for Congress over a Democrat, which is a shocking shift for a demographic group that was once considered reliably Democrat.
But Hispanic voters are not the only group that the Democrats are losing.
According to reporting by the Washington Free Beacon:
Black voters’ support for Democrats has dropped by 21 points since November, while their support for Republicans has risen 15 points.
While this poll puts Democrats’ problems with minority voters into stark relief, Hispanics’ shift away from the party is nothing new. Hispanic support was crucial to Republican Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin’s upset victory last year.
Democratic pollsters and operatives told Politico in January of 2022 that the party has been taking Hispanic voters for granted and is refusing to work for their vote.
Even worse for Democrats, according to strategist Chuck Rocha, party leaders still aren’t “admitting there’s a problem.”
The Washington Free Beacon writes:
The Wall Street Journal poll found even more bad news for Biden and the Democrats. While voters give Biden mostly positive marks on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 57 percent are unhappy with his job performance. And Democrats’ leads on education, the COVID-19 pandemic, and protecting the middle class have plummeted.
The party’s numbers on inflation and the economy, meanwhile, were abysmal. Sixty-five percent of respondents think the economy is “headed in the wrong direction” under Biden, and only 30 percent trust the Democrats to “get inflation under control.”
The poll also noted that, according to most voters, the most important issues facing the country right now are inflation and the economy.
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
