Vice President Harris holds a big lead over former President Trump among Hispanic voters in the battleground state of Arizona, but a new survey released Thursday finds that a majority of voters are unsure.
Harris is the new TVS Univision/Media Predict votereceived 59 percent support among Hispanic voters, compared with 34 percent for the former president. Only 2 percent said they would vote for another candidate, and 4 percent were unsure.
Despite Harris’s sizeable lead, the poll found that 35% of Hispanics in battleground states are not fully decided whether they will vote for the next president.
About 60% of Arizona’s Hispanic voters are at least “somewhat” prepared to support the vice president in the general election. About 39% said they supported Trump, just one percentage point more than the 38% who went to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The survey found that Hispanic voters who voted for Trump (77%) were more enthusiastic about their choice than those who supported Harris in the November election (71%).
Only 33% of Hispanic voters in Arizona believe the country is heading in the “right” direction. Economic issues, including the cost of living (77%), inflation (72%) and home prices (72%) were the main concerns of Hispanic voters in Arizona.
The poll found that 55% of Hispanic voters said there were specific issues that would determine who they would choose on the November ballot, with abortion being the most determining issue at 23%, immigration being second at 12% and the cost of living being third at 11%.
The poll was conducted Aug. 1-8 among 721 Hispanic voters and has a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points.
