The Vermont senator leads all Democratic primary challengers among Latino voters in Texas.
The Vermont senator leads all Democratic primary challengers among Latino voters in Texas, according to areleased Friday by Univision Noticias and the University of Houston’s Center for Mexican American Studies. Sanders garnered 31% of Latino support in Texas, followed by media mogul Mike Bloomberg with 23% and former Vice President Joe Biden with 19%, according to the poll.
“That’s extremely high and highlights a lot of enthusiasm for the primary next week,” said Jeronimo Cortina, associate director at the Center for Mexican American Studies who helped lead the survey.Univision/UH also released a survey of overall Texan voters. Similarly, in that poll, Sanders drew the most support at 26%, followed by Bloomberg and Biden, who tied at 20%, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren with 11%. Pollsters interviewed 1,004 Texas registered voters overall, including 504 Latinos.
“You cannot say, ‘the Latino electorate,’ per se. That doesn’t exist,” Cortina said. “It’s a mosaic rather than a homogeneous voting bloc.”The Univision/UH survey also ranked lowering health care costs, improving wages and creating more jobs as the top three issues for Texas Latino voters. Of those polled, 60% of respondents said they would vote for the Democratic nominee in the general election, even if their preferred candidate doesn’t get the nod.
Democratic presidential candidates have been paying increased attention to Texas this year, more so than in years past, and have reached out specifically to Texas Latinos. Bloomberg launched TV ads in Spanish as part of his multi-million-dollar media blitz in the state, and Warren’s campaign organized events in places like Laredo and Brownsville to mine often-overlooked voters in the Rio Grande Valley.
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