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HIDE THE DECLINE: Latino Nets Avoid Biden’s Bad Polling With Hispanics

Feb 7, 2022

By Kathleen Krumhansl

President Biden’s approval among Hispanics continues to plummet, and the networks that cater to the nation’s largest minority are doing the near-impossible to avoid covering it.

Willow the cat, Queen Elizabeth seeking a new maid, a Mexican anchor losing it on-air over vaccine hesitancy, and even Mexican President AMLO’s second bout with COVID, all garnered more time and attention than Biden’s polling crater with Hispanics. 

Only Univision – and on New Year’s Eve while nobody was watching – offered their audience a brief flash of the bad news.

According to the PBS/Marist mid-December 2021 poll, 65% of Latinos disapprove of Biden’s performance. And while 59% of those registered as Hispanics voted for Biden, at the one-year mark, the change is drastic: now, 56% would NOT vote for him.

In January, another damaging survey, this time from Quinnipiac University and released on January 12, 2022, has 51% of Hispanics disapproving “the way Joe Biden is handling his job a president”; again, the networks looked the other way.

As the Hispanic demographic continues to grow and become a vital part of the nation´s political scenario, those who watch Spanish-language television, and follow them on other platforms, deserve frank, open access to information directly relating to their well-being as American citizens.

At MRC Latino, we look forward to that.

Editor’s note. This appeared at Newsbusters and is reposted with permission.

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