A majority of Mexicans believe that President Claudia Sheinbaum would have a better relationship with Kamala Harris as president of the United States than with Donald Trump.
That is one of the findings of a poll of 1,000 Mexican adults conducted by the newspaper El Financiero in October.
The poll also found that more than four in ten respondents believe that Vice President Harris will win Tuesday’s presidential election, while around one-quarter think that former president Trump will prevail.
Here is a summary of the poll results, published by El Financiero on Tuesday.
Most Mexicans think Sheinbaum would have a better relationship with Harris
Of the 1,000 people polled, 52% said that Sheinbaum — Mexico’s first female president — would have a better relationship with Harris as U.S. president than with Trump.
If she wins the presidential election, Harris will take office as the United States’ first female president on Jan. 20.
Just 4% of poll respondents said that Sheinbaum would have a better relationship with Trump than with Harris.
Just over one-quarter of respondents (26%) said that the Mexican president would have an equally good relationship with the U.S. president no matter who wins the election, while 18% said they didn’t know who Sheinbaum would get on better with.
Harris favored to win
Asked who they think will win the U.S. presidential election, 43% of respondents nominated Harris while 24% opted for Trump.
The remaining 33% said they didn’t know who would win — a reflection of the closeness of the contest, according to polls.
Two-thirds of Mexicans have a ‘bad’ opinion of Trump
El Financiero’s poll found that Harris is far more popular among Mexicans than Trump, who in 2015 infamously accused Mexico of sending “rapists” and other criminals to the United States.
Just over half of respondents said they had a “very good or good” opinion of Harris, while just 10% of those polled said the same about Donald Trump, who has pledged to carry out a mass deportation plan that could affect many Mexicans who live in the United States.
Only 14% of respondents said they had a “bad or very bad opinion” of Harris, while 67% said the same about Trump.
Almost 60% of Mexicans have little or no interest in US elections
Almost one-third (31%) of 1,000 Mexicans polled by El Financiero said they had no interest in Tuesday’s elections in the United States, at which voters will also elect members of Congress.
An additional 26% expressed little interest in the U.S. elections.
Just over one in five respondents (22%) said they had “a lot” of interest in the elections, while 15% said they were “somewhat” interested.
Six percent of those polled told El Financiero they didn’t know how interested they were in the elections in the United States.
A majority of Mexicans see Mexico-US relations in a positive light
Just over half (53%) of Mexicans polled by El Financiero described relations between Mexico and the United States as “very good or good.”
The two countries are each other’s largest trade partners and collaborate on a range of other issues including security and public health.
Just over one in five respondents (22%) said that relations between Mexico and the United States are “bad or very bad.”
The two countries are engaged in long-running disputes over energy and genetically modified corn policies in Mexico, while former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador “paused” government relations with the United States Embassy in Mexico earlier this year after U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar voiced concerns over the controversial judicial reform.
With reports from El Financiero
Influx of millions upon millions being returned to Mexico … high tarrafis on Mexican goods? That wouldbe good for Mexico?
That’s a No brainer! Of course the presidentas will get along very well!
If Harris wins she will be the first & last female US president. Any female candidates who are actually qualified for U.S. president in the future will have no shot.
The relationship between Mexico President Sheinbaum and President Trump is going to get worse” simply because Sheinbaum and Obrador didb’t “help” stop the flow of 11 million illegals coming across in Mexico. Now Sheinbaum is “worried” and concern of the consequences that are going to happen. The “poll that was taken by the Mexican newspaper indicated that the people of Mexico wanted Harris to be the president. This didb’t happen and all the Mexican people were “WRONG”. Now expect ral hard changes in the way the U.S Government a nd Trump will deal with Mexico and President Sheinbaum.
Trump is going to impose some real hard “tariffs” on all Mexican goods, ( cars, tractors and any company that builds their products” in Mexico and ships them to the U.S.coming into the US. With Trump as President, it’s going to be “MADE IN AMERICA” INSTEAD OF MEXICO. Big “economic “shock” headed to Mexico because of OBRADO “hate of America.
Are you ok?
Fake name. Fake assessment. Fake prediction.
You think Elon Musk, Trumps new best friend, will allow him to put a big fat tariff on the cars he makes in Mexico! Trump is all talk!! Mostly BS!!
When Trump left office in 2020 there where 10.6 million illegal aliens in the U.S. There are a little over 11 million now. How the Biden administration let in 11 million is a mystery. I think folks need to get educated about immigration and not spout off statistics spread by a man suffering bowel incontinence, narcissistic personality disorder, psychopathy, and dementia.
please . . . your ignorance on illegal border crosser’s numbers is MIND NUMBING . . . where did you get your GED??? is this “common core math” ??? last month alone Mayorkus’ department, Customs and Border Protection ( DHS ) reported about 58K border crossings ( not including the “got aways” ) . . .
Biden let in 11 million but the difference between Trump and Biden is 400k, can you do math?
The 11 million number has been floated for over 20 years. How can over 1 mil. per year ,plus got aways come through the border and the number stays the same ?? Biden invited them in and removed some of the walls, as well as just opened the border to them. I live near the border and “Customs ” were busing them from the border to the cities at a rate of one thousand per day. And this is a small border…. Lukeville AZ
That was for asylum seekers not that I support the practice. I still have to wait 2 to 3 hours sometimes you’re “open border”.
History repeats itself much as the rise of the third reich.
You are an asshole
This is moot and academic today.
Who cares and gives a “dam” about the exact numbers of illegals. the concern is thousands of “illegals ” came across Mexico without being “STOPPED BY OBRADO because OBRADO ‘hated Trump and he liked Joe Biden.
Now with President Trump, all these “thousands of “illegals” are going to be “rounded up” and shipped back to their country, including Mexico. NOW it’s Mexico turn to”take care” of them,” feed” them, ” educated” them and give them “free medica” care nl and “free food stamps”. Don’t worry about the “exact numbers of illegals.and lose “sleep” over the exact number. GET READY MEXICO AND A LOT OF REASON FOR CONCERN PRESIDENT SHEINBAUM.
If you really think he is going to round up thousands of thousands of illegals you are dreaming. Empty promises to his followers. He’ll make a token shipment of poor souls and call it done, like his lame attempt at wall building.
I am a Canadian – I once heard some Americans referring to the “spics” who do all out farming for us because our young folks don’t want to do that hard work for such little pay. It made me feel sick and it still does. Those are theb”illegals” who will be kicked out. THEN who will till your fields?