Donald Trump’s vow to “build a wall” resonates with the majority of registered Republican voters, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll.
Seventy-seven percent of Republican voters think the rising number of immigrants is a “threat to U.S. values,” according to the survey released June 2.
Trump’s success on that platform is not surprising, as that belief holds most heavily with Republicans who have “warmer feelings” toward the presumptive nominee, some 50 percent of registered GOP voters.
However, Trump’s stance on immigration is having another effect on Hispanic Democrats, according to Eric Uslaner, a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland.
“Hispanic groups have been engaged in extensive registration drives to boost Latino turnout against Trump,” Uslaner told The Daily Caller. “This has energized Democrats in Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado — and even some in Georgia and North Carolina.”
A fall Reuters survey found 62 percent of Republicans “feel like a stranger in their own country.”
The same study found that more than half of Americans “don’t identify with what America has become,” and 77 percent of Republicans share that attitude.
The latest Investor’s Business Daily poll shows Trump trailing Hillary Clinton 40-45, with Gary Johnson pulling 11 percent.