Survey: Donald Trump leads among Hispanic business owners, but workers prefer Joe Biden
This article was originally written by Jesse Scheckner for Florida Politics and can be found on their website here.
Trump’s support base suffers from far fewer defectors than that of Biden.
When it comes to garnering favor from Hispanic business owners in this year’s Presidential Election, it’s not a close contest; they like Donald Trump a lot more.
But among their employees and non-business-owning entrepreneurs? Joe Biden’s their guy.
Newly released polling from the U.S. Hispanic Business Council (USHBC) shows Trump has a double-digit advantage in support among the group’s business-owning members.
Forty-six percent of respondents who own businesses said they’d cast ballots for Trump if the election happened today, compared to 30% who said the same for Biden.
However, 52% of the organization’s non-business-owning members said they’d vote for Biden. Just 31.5% preferred Trump.
The USHBC surveyed 2,300 members April 20-May 8. The margin of error was 3.7 percentage points.
Among all USHBC members, 42% said they’d vote for Biden, 38% sided with Trump and the remaining 20% were either undecided or preferred Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Notably, Trump’s support base suffers from far fewer defectors than that of Biden. Among USBHC business owners, 14% who previously backed Biden were undecided, while 9% felt similarly about Trump.
Fifty-one percent of USHBC business owners said Trump was better for their bottom lines, compared to just 27% who said the same about Biden. The remainder said neither helped or hurt their profits.
The survey found 2 out of 3 respondents said Trump’s trade policies more positively impacted their businesses.
Asked to rank their top issues this election cycle, 31% pointed to the economy, 30% said preserving democracy was most important, 14% cited national security and 13% said immigration.
They added that inflation is most affecting their finances (33%), followed by gas and electricity prices (27%) and interest rates (20%).