Beyond recent national polling that is just devastating for the GOP in 2016, we now have evidence that Hispanic voter registration is “skyrocketing,” reports Rafael Bernal:
Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Elected and Appointed Officials, projects 13.1 million Hispanics will vote nationwide in 2016, compared to 11.2 million in 2012 and 9.7 million in 2008.
Many of those new Hispanic voters are also expected to vote against Trump if he is the Republican nominee, something that appears much more likely after the front-runner’s sweeping primary victories Tuesday in five East Coast states.
While many of the new registrations are taking place in California and Texas, which are likely to go Democratic and Republican respectively regardless, the numbers are also rising in Colorado, Nevada, and Florida.
A whopping 80 percent of respondents in a poll of registered Hispanic voters in Colorado and Nevada said Trump's views on immigration made them less likely to vote for Republicans in November. In Florida, that number was 68 percent.
Here’s the Colorado, Nevada, and Florida polling from Latino Decisions referenced above.
Taken together, new Latino voters and their attitudes toward the GOP’s likely nominee could also have serious implications for down-ticket races. That’s exactly why the GOP is pinning its hopes on “split tickets,” per the New York Times. Still, the GOP brand as a whole is in peril and it’s not just with Latinos, The Donald is also digging a hole with female voters. Keep digging, Donald, keep digging.