Renzo Downey
A majority of Florida Hispanic likely voters say they’ll vote for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ re-election, according to a new survey of the Latino electorate.
DeSantis leads Democratic challenger Charlie Crist 51%-44% among Hispanics with just over two weeks left in his re-election race, according to the Telemundo/LX News: FL Hispanic Voter Poll. The poll, conducted Monday through Thursday last week by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, is more evidence Florida Republicans are consolidating the Hispanic vote.
The poll results show flipped fortunes from just four years ago for Republicans among Hispanics. According to CNN exit polling from 2018, former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum took 54% of the Latino vote against DeSantis’ 44% that year.
Per the Telemundo/LX News poll, DeSantis’ strength among Latinos comes almost entirely from those with Cuban backgrounds, winning that electorate 72%-22%. Crist leads Puerto Ricans 59%-37% and other Hispanic voters 53%-43%.
DeSantis also has the support of 56% of Hispanics who were born in another country and a plurality, 48%, of Hispanics born in the United States.
DeSantis also leads male voters 54%-40% and voters 50 and older 54%-42%. The candidates split female voters (48% each) and voters 49 and younger (47% each).
Among Hispanic independents, DeSantis enjoys a 56%-34% lead.
The poll also found DeSantis with a positive 15% net approval rating among Hispanic voters and surveyed voters on various current events.
DeSantis’ worst performance on the issues came regarding his decision to fly Venezuelan migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Hispanic voters approve of the flights by 50%-43%.
Pundits have suggested DeSantis risks shedding Hispanic support over the migrant flights. The Bexar County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office has launched a criminal investigation into the flights.
A Morning Consult and Politico poll last month found a plurality of Hispanic voters nationwide supported the move and similar actions by other Republican Governors. That poll found that 41% agreed the move was an “appropriate” way to handle illegal immigration while 35% called it “inappropriate.”
DeSantis performed stronger on other job performance questions. Voters gave DeSantis a positive 30% net approval on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a positive 17% sum on housing and property insurance, and a positive 56% on his response to Hurricane Ian.
Mason-Dixon surveyed 625 Hispanic voters who self-identified as likely to vote during the Midterms. The poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Mason-Dixon called the landlines and cell phones of registered voters and assigned quotas to reflect Hispanic voter registration by county.
Early voting begins Monday in parts of the state. Election Day is Nov. 8.
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35 comments
Impeach Biden
October 24, 2022 at 6:33 am
Game over Charlie Crist. Should have spent more time campaigning rather than typing on this board.🤣
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 6:36 am
No surprise, freedom, liberty loving people will support Gov Ron with strong majorities.
When you have 2.5% unemployment, people’s are working and striving. They support America’s Governor because they share cultural values of freedom, liberty and a rising tide for all.
DeSantis saved Florida, these people’s benefited and see the value in good govt.
This is a windfall for America’s Gov and the Repub. party. These hard working people are new wave Repub. voters who will provide epic support, major wins across the board, bottom up. Working class, middle class, blue collar voters.
Senator Rubio, Gov Ron and other GOP candidates bottom up will benefit.
Joe Corsin
October 24, 2022 at 7:57 am
Entry level workers were making $10 an hour (equivalent of $6 an hour back in 1997) during Trump presidency and under Ron DeDumbDumb. Only when Democrats pushed the minimum wage laws and people quit in droves did wages rise. Republicans are plantation owners who do nothing for anyone who isn’t rich. You are a liar and con artist like GOP empty suits.
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 8:32 am
Facts are funny things.
Every metric counters your lies, as you know nothing.
Rising tide for all, it’s called equality.
People love the American, Repub way.
Not the socialist, Marxist way you and Elliot espouse.
DeSantis, GOP are economic opportunity. The Dums are govt. pay offs.
The GOP tax cuts raised working class out of poverty, as US Treasury and IRS have documented.
You and your Dums are stewing in your rotten gravy.
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 8:38 am
Facts are funny things!
Every metric counters your lies Joey.
Rising tide for all. Unemployment for all.
Treasury and IRS, validate tax cuts lifted middle class, blue collar, and working class.
You espouse Marxism. We espouse working class growth! You espouse losers.
Joe Corsin
October 24, 2022 at 9:12 am
The economy is bad one day because of Biden and good another day when speaking about DeSantis? You people full of dog shit and don’t know your balls from your asshole.
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 8:38 am
Facts are funny things!
Every metric counters your lies Joey.
Rising tide for all. Unemployment for all.
Treasury and IRS, validate tax cuts lifted middle class, blue collar, and working class.
You espouse Marxism. We espouse working class growth! You espouse losers.
Joe Corsin
October 24, 2022 at 9:15 am
Marxism is for the working class but your right wing billionaires and their shills are for the rich. You just spewing right wing propaganda and you don’t know what in the hell you talking about.
Ocean Joe
October 24, 2022 at 9:46 am
Tom, “unemployment for all”? Are you bringing Hoover or Trump back, the two biggest job losers in history?
It’s like magic.
Florida has low unemployment.
The entire US has low unemployment.
But Desantis gets credit, Biden does not.
The economy is not controlled by either.
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 10:57 am
Thanks ocean, typo, meant rising tide for all, “employment’ for all. Regards
Joe Corsin
October 24, 2022 at 11:02 am
Unemployment for all and tropical 2 typhooncane 🌊 Also double and triple posting. This is the kind of incompetent voter that brings us these Florida empty suit, grifter politicians. These authoritarian mad men.
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 11:08 am
Ocean, now, now.
The only reason why Florida has 2.5% unemployment, DeSantis kept Florida economy open. He saved Florida. The peeps know it.
All reasonable economic metrics in 2018,19 showed rising tide, bottom up recovery. Blue collar, middle class. Jobs were low 3% in early 2000. It’s gone up under Biden this year. The Covid unemployment skewed it in early 20. It started growing again in fall of 20, and continued. Those are previous held jobs. We still don’t have people returning to work force.
Please get off it, you look bad.
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 11:21 am
Joey, no one taking to you.
Typo, go back and suck cock.
Joe Corsin
October 24, 2022 at 11:35 am
Too many typos and double posts = not competent enough to vote without treatment and medication.
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 6:36 am
No surprise, freedom, liberty loving people will support Gov Ron with strong majorities.
When you have 2.5% unemployment, people’s are working and striving. They support America’s Governor because they share cultural values of freedom, liberty and a rising tide for all.
DeSantis saved Florida, these people’s benefited and see the value in good govt.
This is a windfall for America’s Gov and the Repub. party. These hard working people are new wave Repub. voters who will provide epic support, major wins across the board, bottom up. Working class, middle class, blue collar voters.
Senator Rubio, Gov Ron and other GOP candidates bottom up will benefit.
Charlie Crist
October 24, 2022 at 8:26 am
If I lose the election, I’m gonna get your IP address from Florida Politics, get your physical address and come over there and give you a smack in the face, kick in the balls, spinning hammer fist to the mouth.
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 8:42 am
You are going get stampeded, shellacked. You will be embarrassed.
You won’t show up, you are a degenerate. U are busy sucking cock.
Charlie Crist
October 24, 2022 at 9:08 am
You got a filthy mouth and one day someone is gonna close it for good.
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 11:35 am
Oh, Wah Joey Charlie corsin.
Keep on sucking.
Charlie Crist
October 24, 2022 at 12:40 pm
Tropical 2 wha wha what the fuck are you talking about?
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 1:47 pm
I own you.
Too funny, I’ve destroyed you mentally corsin.
It sucks being you.
Charlie Crist
October 24, 2022 at 3:35 pm
Nobody has a clue what you are talking about. Just nonsense..
The Real Real Charlie Crist
October 24, 2022 at 8:25 am
But But But the convential leftist wisdom was open the southern boarder and ALL Hispanic people would be so greatfull that they would line up for miles to vote in all our Democratic candidates. I even had a wet dream in which the Messiah himself Barak Obama told me so. Then that fish Michelle ruined the dream.
What could have gone so wrong? Can we just round up all those dirty wetbacks and put them in a re-education/forced labor camp? I am so mad. I hate all Hispanics.
Chain Gang Charlie
Yrral
October 24, 2022 at 8:42 am
Do lots these Cuban, believe Desantis can do anything to liberate Cuba,if not why are they voting for him,only through engagement,thing may change in Cuba
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 8:46 am
DeSantis and Rubio are freedom, liberty and opportunity.
Charlie Crist
October 24, 2022 at 9:09 am
👆 Right wing propaganda. Meanwhile this idiot is getting his pockets picked by everyone in sight.
Ocean Joe
October 24, 2022 at 9:41 am
Just had 40 Cubans come ashore near my backyard in a contraption of barrels welded to guardrails.
Marco does nothing to help his own people.
No immigrants allowed unless they’re Norwegians, right?
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 11:19 am
Ocean, you and alias Charlie, Joey can care for them.
Rubio, and I support legal immigration.
Joe Corsin
October 24, 2022 at 11:36 am
Rubio is a cold drink of piss on a winters day. Only shill for the rich. Shame on you.
David In Shoreline
October 24, 2022 at 9:57 am
Governor DeSantis inspires people with his leadership. The days of waiting months to re-open a bridge following a major hurricane are gone – DeSantis reopened the bridges within days or weeks. Tonight’s debate should be fun, maybe Charlie will announce his next party switch.
Charlie Crist
October 24, 2022 at 11:38 am
I’m gonna humiliate, defame, and degrade Ron DeSantis in front of millions of people tonight. This is all that matters.
PeterH
October 24, 2022 at 12:49 pm
DeSantis:
VOTE FOR ME! I’LL DEPORT YOU FROM FLORIDA!
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 1:52 pm
Yes. It is tempting to do so peter h, you, corsin, Elliot, Morton, misbeliever, Mary hooch, frankie, Haney and others. Gone
Tom
October 24, 2022 at 1:52 pm
Yes. It is tempting to do so peter h, you, corsin, Elliot, Morton, misbeliever, Mary hooch, frankie, Haney and others. Gone
joey
October 25, 2022 at 10:11 am
Cubans like dictators not surprise. They get here on a boat then no want no one to come. lol
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