Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic millennial problem
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton is having trouble exciting large segments of Hispanic voters despite her Republican opponent’s history of offensive statements about Mexican immigrants.
Support for Clinton lags among Hispanic millennials, a demographic key to her victory who account for nearly half of the record 27.3 million Hispanics eligible to vote in November, as well as Hispanic men, according to a new study released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.
Just 48 percent of Hispanic millennials said they support Clinton, compared to 66 percent of older voters, Pew found in its latest poll of the Hispanic electorate.
And voters under 35 years old who do support her are doing so unenthusiastically. Among Hispanic millennials backing Clinton, 64 percent described their support more as a vote against Donald Trump than a vote for her.
“We want to see a more forceful attack against inequality in this country,” said Juan Cuba, the 31-year-old director of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party who had voted for Bernie Sanders during the Florida primary but now supports Clinton. “At the end of the day millennials see the car crash that is the Donald Trump campaign, and the things that he is offering will set us back even further.”
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