Inflation driving Hispanic, Black voters to GOP as Americans postpone vacations, eat out less: poll
61% of Americans eating out less, according to USA Today and Suffolk University poll
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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.
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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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People shop for discounted items at a supermarket in Monterey Park, California, on Oct. 19, 2022. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Republican congressional candidates lead on a generic ballot with 49%, compared to Democratic congressional candidates' 45%, according to the USA Today poll.
The results are noticeably different from the July edition of the same poll, where Democrats led with 44% to Republicans' 40%.
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The poll showed that President Biden's job approval rating sits at approximately 44%, while 53% disapprove of how he has performed in office.
This figure is up from July, when the president was maintaining a 39% approval rating, compared to a 56% disapproval rating.
The USA Today/Suffolk University poll surveyed 1,000 likely voters via landline and cellphone. The poll was conducted Oct. 19-24 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1% percentage points.