A Pew Research survey gives Hillary Clinton a 58 to 18 percent lead over Donald Trump with Latino voters. | AP Photo Pew survey: 58 percent of Latino voters back Clinton

Democrat Hillary Clinton led with Latino voters in an annual Pew Research survey conducted over August and September, garnering 58 percent support compared to Donald Trump’s 19 percent in a four-way race. But her support from Latino millennials is less robust.

The poll was conducted from Aug. 23 through Sept. 21, and since that time the dynamics of the presidential race have changed considerably, after two presidential debates and the release of bombshell video footage showing Trump bragging about groping women in 2005.


According to the poll’s results, Clinton held a 48-point lead over the Republican nominee with registered Latino voters before those events transpired — when Trump had already made a series of derogatory comments about Mexican immigrants. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson garnered 10 percent support, while 6 percent of Latino adults polled said they supported the Green Party’s Jill Stein.

Support for third-party candidates seems to have cut into both Clinton and Trump’s support among Latino millennials registered to vote, with 48 percent of those polled supporting Clinton and 15 percent Trump. Johnson and Stein each garnered 13 percent support (11 percent preferred someone else or had no opinion).

Sixty-four percent of Latino millennials in favor of Clinton said their preference is more of a vote against Trump, rather than a vote for Clinton.

Older Latino voters skewed more toward Clinton, with 66 percent of those 36 years old or older backing the Democratic nominee and 21 percent supporting Trump. The third party candidates were less popular among the older voters surveyed, with 7 percent for Johnson and 1 percent for Stein.

The survey also affirms that Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail has affected the state of the race. Seventy-five percent of registered Hispanic voters polled, according to Pew, “say they have discussed the Republican candidate’s comments about Hispanics or other groups with family, friends or coworkers in the past year.”

Pew reports that 74 percent of those voters have given the race “quite a lot” of thought and are “absolutely certain” that they’ll vote. That’s a slightly bigger proportion than Latino voters overall, 69 percent of whom described themselves as “absolutely certain” in their plans to vote in November, down some from 77 percent of those surveyed by Pew in 2012.

In terms of perceptions of the major parties, 54 percent of Latino registered voters in the survey said they believe that the Democratic Party has greater concern for them than Republicans do, compared to 11 percent who gave the edge to the GOP. Pew reports that these numbers are similar to results from last year, when 61 percent of Latinos surveyed favored the Democrats’ concern for their community.