Polls in the US show that presidential challenger, Joe Biden, is struggling to maintain the support of Hispanic voters, compared to their support for the Democratic Party in the last two American presidential elections.
Biden is the nominee of the Democrats and is challenging Republican, President Donald Trump, in November.
According to the Financial Times, Biden will easily win the majority of the Hispanic vote, but his support among this group is lower than that for his predecessors as Democratic nominees, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Hispanic voters account for about 10% of the US electorate, but are an important constituency in key swing states such as Arizona, Florida, and Nevada. Texas also has a large Hispanic population and has been reliably Republican for forty years, but the growing Hispanic population there could give Biden a real chance of winning the state.
The Financial Times estimates that Biden has the support of about 61% of the Hispanic population, against 65% who supported Clinton in 2016 and the 69% who supported Obama in 2012.
Biden will also be looking to win back the support of white working-class voters, who were instrumental in giving Trump the keys to the White House in 2016, especially in the Rust Belt states in the Midwest.
Biden has held a consistent lead over Trump for some time now, but that lead is diminishing as the race for the Oval Office reaches the finish line. His lead in important states such as Pennsylvania and Florida is small (or non-existent) and while Biden is probably still likely to win he will have to work hard to unseat Trump.