Twenty percent of respondents said they held either a very favorable or somewhat favorable view of Donald Trump compared with 69 percent who said the same of Hillary Clinton. | Getty Poll: Clinton holds whopping lead over Trump with Hispanics

Even as Donald Trump has narrowed Hillary Clinton’s overall lead in the polls in recent weeks, the former secretary of state has maintained a sizable lead among Hispanic voters, according to a Washington Post/Univision poll released Thursday.

Sixty-seven percent of Hispanic likely voters who responded to the nationwide poll said they support Clinton, while just 19 percent favor Trump. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, polled at 4 percent, while the Green Party’s Jill Stein came in at 2 percent.


Trump has struggled to connect with Latino voters from Day One of his presidential campaign, labeling undocumented Mexican immigrants as rapists, drug dealers and criminals at his Trump Tower launch event. The Republican nominee has pledged to build a wall along America’s southern border with Mexico and to deport all undocumented immigrants. Neither proposal has endeared him to the Hispanic community.

Just 20 percent of respondents said they held either a very favorable or somewhat favorable view of Trump, compared with 69 percent who said the same of Clinton, the Democratic nominee. Twenty-eight percent said they view Clinton very or somewhat unfavorably, while 76 percent hold those views of Trump. Seventy-three percent of respondents said they believe Trump is racist.

The Manhattan billionaire has, at times throughout his campaign, sought to mend fences with the Hispanic community by toning down his immigration rhetoric and traveling to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. But those instances of toning-down have rarely lasted, with Trump generally quick to return to the hard-line immigration stance that played a large part in his success in the Republican primary.

Among the respondents to the Washington Post/Univision poll, 15 percent identified immigration as the most important issue they will consider in deciding their vote. Only “jobs and the economy” was listed as more important, with 28 percent selecting it as the issue that will most help them decide who to vote for.

The Washington Post/Univision poll was conducted from Oct. 26-30, interviewing 1,008 Hispanic likely voters on landlines and cellphones in English and in Spanish. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 points.