--- title: Clinton Lead Over Sanders Shrinking Among Latino Voters description: Latino voters will play a critical role in the Nevada Caucuses canonical: https://time.com/4231566/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-latino-voters-poll/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-20T20:39:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:14:45.999Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clinton Lead Over Sanders Shrinking Among Latino Voters og:description: Latino voters will play a critical role in the Nevada Caucuses og:url: https://time.com/4231566/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-latino-voters-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc61ac66154fe1f93/69887e62e20a8725e0a8fa1f/bernie-sanders15.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Speaks At Las Vegas Campaign Concert And Rally og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton Lead Over Sanders Shrinking Among Latino Voters twitter:description: Latino voters will play a critical role in the Nevada Caucuses twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc61ac66154fe1f93/69887e62e20a8725e0a8fa1f/bernie-sanders15.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Clinton's Lead Over Sanders Is Shrinking Rapidly Among Latino Voters, Poll Shows by [Mark Blumenthal, Jon Cohen / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Mark Blumenthal, Jon Cohen / NBC News Feb 20, 2016 8:39 PM UTC  Bernie Sanders during a campaign concert and rally in Henderson, Nevada, on Feb. 19, 2016. Bernie Sanders during a campaign concert and rally in Henderson, Nevada, on Feb. 19, 2016.Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Mark Blumenthal, Jon Cohen / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Mark Blumenthal, Jon Cohen / NBC News Feb 20, 2016 8:39 PM UTC The NBC News | SurveyMonkey national weekly election tracking survey of the Democratic nomination contest shows a rapid narrowing of Hilary Clinton’s lead over Bernie Sanders among Latino voters over the past two weeks. While our national surveys have shown little discernible trend among all Democrats since the Iowa Caucuses, the movement among Latino voters suggests that a critical part of the so-called firewall of support that Clinton’s campaign had hoped to rely on among non-white Democrats may be crumbling. Latino voters will play a critical role in Saturday’s Nevada Caucuses. Hispanics make up 17 percent of the population of eligible voters. . . 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