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A majority of young Latinos support Biden over Trump, according to new survey

WASHINGTON – A majority of young Latino voters support Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in the 2020 November election, according to a new survey.

If the election was held tomorrow, 60% of Latinos ages 18 to 34 say they would cast their ballot for Biden while only 19% say they would vote for Trump, according to a Telemundo/BuzzFeed News survey released Thursday.

Mónica Gil, executive vice president and chief administrative and marketing officer at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, noted that if any candidate wants to win in the election, they must focus on young Latinos.

“Any person who wants to get into an office cannot win without young Latinos supporting them,” Gil told USA TODAY, adding that “1 million young Latino voters will become eligible to vote, every year for the next 10 years.”

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The study comes amid new polling that shows Biden is trailing Trump with Latinos in Florida. Biden is also not doing as well as Hillary Clinton in 2016 with Latinos in Texas, according to a Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation and Rice University’s Baker Institute poll conducted in August. Throughout the primary, Latino voters also overwhelmingly supported Sen. Bernie Sanders. Since Biden became the Democratic nominee, young Latinos have cautiously shifted their support to the former vice president.

This year, a record 32 million Latinos across the country will be eligible to vote, making them the largest minority electorate for the 2020 election. According to the survey, nearly two-thirds (64%) of young Latinos say they definitely will vote in November, and another 22% say they probably will.

While Biden is leading Trump among young Latinos, there is skepticism that Biden will win. When asked who they expected to win the election, 53% of the young Latinos surveyed said Biden would while 52% said Trump would be re-elected.

Half of young Latinos are Democrats, the survey found. Comparatively, 13% are Republican while 7% are “other party.” Thirty percent of Latinos are Independent or undecided.

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Gil noted the undecided and Independent Latino voting bloc is “gettable still” in the election.

“They don't have any specific ties to a party, because many of them are new time voters voting for the first time,” she said.

The survey was conducted in both English and Spanish between June 5 to June 22, with 638 Hispanic voters surveyed online. There is a margin of error of plus or minus 3.88 percentage points.

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