Enraged by US President Donald Trump’s racist remarks about American Latinos, US Hispanic voters are far more interested in partaking in this year’s midterm congressional elections than they were in 2014, a new poll has found.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll released Sunday found that 36 percent of Hispanic voters were “certain” to vote in Tuesday elections, a significant increase from 27 percent in the 2014 midterms.
To put that in perspective, there has been only a five-percent rise in general voter enthusiasm among all Americans over the same period. This means that Hispanics’ enthusiasm to vote outpaces the general population by more than two times.
Enthusiasm was specifically higher among Hispanic Democrats, 42 percent of whom said they were “certain” to vote compared to 29 percent in 2014.
The survey found that Hispanic voters were nearly twice as inclined to vote for Democratic candidates running for Senate and the House of…