Inflation driving Hispanic, Black voters to GOP as Americans postpone vacations, eat out less: poll

Inflation driving Hispanic, Black voters to GOP as Americans postpone vacations, eat out less: poll

Inflation and skyrocketing costs of living are nudging minority voters toward the Republican Party, new polling data shows.

Forty percent of likely Hispanic voters would choose the Republican candidate in a generic ballot, according to a survey from USA Today and Suffolk University. And 21% of Black voters are leaning Republican, the poll found.

Half of all Americans say they are postponing vacations, and 61% say they are eating out less, according to the poll. Those numbers are even higher among Hispanics, 35% of whom voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis.

Trump carried 8% of the Black vote in 2020, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis. 

The Biden administration's inability to bring down inflation has been a key issue pushing traditionally left-leaning demographics rightward.  

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