WATCH: CNN Delivers Devastating News To Kamala Harris After New Poll's Shocking Findings Among Key Demographic

On Monday, CNN's Jim Acosta delivered devastating news to Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign after a new poll from The New York Times/Siena showed the Democratic presidential nominee down 10 points against 45th President Donald Trump in the swing state of Arizona. The dramatic shift among Latino voters, a critical demographic making up a third of the state, comes as the Harris campaign has focused less on identity politics to win their votes.

"One of the things that we should note... Latino voters have moved away from Harris in Arizona if you believe this New York Times poll," Jim Acosta said. According to the survey, Arizona has shifted significantly in Trump's direction, with the shift between the September and August polls in the state being 10 points. The dramatic change in preference is largely thanks to Latino voters who have moved away from Harris by 11 points (60 percent to 49 percent). In contrast, Arizona Latinos moved to Trump by four points (37 percent to 41 percent), and the number of undecided Latino voters increased significantly (four percent to 10 percent).

According to POLITICO, Harris has been attempting to move away from talking about race and progressive border policies to instead try to depict herself as being strong on immigration and the border. "There is no question that this campaign is 180 degrees different with Latino voters than any other Democratic candidate in history," the co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, Mike Madrid, told the outlet. "The great irony — and I think it's a beautiful one — is that it took a Black woman to help the Democratic Party break its headlock they'd put themselves in on identity politics."

Harris' collapse among Latino voters in Arizona in the past month has translated to a striking decline in her overall numbers in the state, and she has lost ground in other Sunbelt battlegrounds. The New York Times poll, with a margin of error of between four and five percentage points per state, found Trump leading Harris by five points in Arizona (50 percent to 45 percent), four points in Georgia (49 percent to 45 percent), and two points in North Carolina (49 percent to 47 percent). 

If the Trump-Vance ticket successfully holds its lead in the three Sunbelt states, Republicans would only have to win one of the Rust Belt states to win the White House. Trump could reach 270 electoral votes if he flipped Georgia, held North Carolina, and flipped Pennsylvania. While President Trump narrowly lost Arizona (Biden won by 10,400 votes) and Georgia (Biden won by 11,800 votes) in the 2020 election to President Biden, he held control of North Carolina (Trump won by under 75,000 votes).

With how the race is shaping up this cycle, Trump's path to victory seems increasingly optimistic as Harris attempts to claw together enough votes to hold on to all three Rust Belt states or attempt to win Georgia or North Carolina.

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🚨Kamala drops ELEVEN points with Arizona Latino voters since August! pic.twitter.com/oGa1HXs0F4

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