John,

Last week, I spoke with Willie Geist on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” about the polling Voto Latino recently conducted with national polling firm GQR. This is the largest poll of swing state Latinos heading into the 2024 presidential election. One of the reasons we went into the field to conduct this extensive poll of over 2,000 Latino voters in key battleground states, was that we kept hearing the narrative Latinos were leaving the Democratic party and going to Trump. And that just didn’t make any sense, so we dug in deeper.

Here’s what our polling revealed: there’s no meaningful “rightward shift” among Latinos, but there is a significant number of Latino voters who are seriously considering a third-party vote.

That means it’s time to take Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seriously and talk to individuals to recognize that a vote for him is a vote for Donald Trump.

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The challenge is that no one really knows what Kennedy stands for. They have the brand of Kennedy that his family brings in social justice and believes in equity, but when you look at his record that is not the case. Now is the moment for the campaigns to define Kennedy and demonstrate he’s also an extremist right along the lines of Donald Trump. He is an anti vaxxer, he literally quoted had a visceral reaction to taking down confederate statues, and when you ask about abortion he keeps flip-flopping. If you ask about the economy he does not have an answer. He is an individual that has not been defined, but it is time to take him seriously and talk to individuals to recognize that a vote for him is a vote for Donald Trump.”

— María Teresa Kumar

Voto Latino President and Co-Founder