U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric and focus on the grievances of white voters helped him win the 2016 election.
The analysis comes amid widespread criticism of Trump's racially charged comments about four minority women lawmakers and the fallout from a mass
shooting of Hispanics in El Paso,
Texas, that many
Democratic presidential candidates swiftly blamed on the president's rhetoric.
While Reuters did not measure anti-Hispanic biases in 2016, political scientists say that people who express them closely overlap with those who are biased against other racial minorities.