Clinton leads Republican Ted Cruz by seven points nationally, 51 percent to 44 percent, and by 27 points among Latinos, 61 percent to 34 percent.
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The latest MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll showed that Clinton’s stiffest competition in a hypothetical general election matchup is now Ben Carson. Cruz and Rubio trailed with a respective 17 and 16 percent of the vote, followed by Carson with 10 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 4 percent, the poll found.
2,360 registered voters were polled and 264 Latino voters were surveyed.
Clinton’s lead comes despite the fact that the contentious – and often weird – Republican presidential primary is swallowing all of the air in the media.
The fastest growing minority population in the United States, Latinos gave President Obama 71 percent of their vote and Mitt Romney only 27 percent, the lowest that a GOP candidate has received in the three previous election. Her next closest contender is Marco Rubio, whom she leads 48-45.
Of the remaining major candidates, Cruz’s net favorability was (-9), Hillary Clinton’s (-15), and Donald Trump’s (-30), an indication of a 30 percent favorable and 60 percent unfavorable rating.
Asked who they would favor in a race between a generic Democratic and Republican presidential candidate, respondents were split evenly with 45% backing each one. However, Democrat Clinton’s onetime lead in one-to-one match-ups against GOP candidates has eroded, and a small polling sub-sample showed that two-thirds of Trump voters would continue to support him as an independent candidate if he were to leave the Republican Party.
Hillary Clinton has just spoken out about her refusal to use to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism”, as reported by The Daily Mail.
In 2008, Latino voters aided Obama winning his first term, selecting the first African-American president over John McCain 67 to 31 percent.
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