President Trump has united the Latino vote … in its disdain for the policies of his second term.<\/p>\n
A new study from the Pew Research Center<\/a> found that a majority of U.S. Latino adults disapprove of the job Trump has done since returning to the White House earlier this year.<\/p>\n Ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids<\/a> throughout the country and continued economic turmoil<\/a> have led many Latinos to grow upset with the politician \u2014 whose 2024 campaign centered<\/a> on carrying out the \u201clargest deportation operation in American history\u201d<\/a> and fixing the nation\u2019s fledgling economy.<\/p>\n Pew\u2019s findings revealed that 70% of Latinos disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president. When it came to immigration, 65% disapproved of the current administration\u2019s approach to the issue. Regarding the economy, 61% said Trump\u2019s policies have made economic conditions worse.<\/p>\n However, party affiliation still played a significant role in how Latinos graded Trump\u2019s performance. Overall, 81% of 2024 Latino Trump voters approved of his job so far \u2014 an impressive level of support, though it has notably dipped from 93% since the onset of his second term.<\/p>\n Among Latinos who voted for Kamala Harris, Trump had a 4% approval rating in February, which has since plummeted to 0%. His approval rating with 2024 Latino nonvoters moved from 42% down to 27%. As a whole, the president\u2019s approval rating among all Latino groups has slumped from 42% at the beginning of the year to 27% this fall. <\/p>\n In the Pew study, Latino voters also expressed pessimism about their future in the U.S. Of those surveyed, 68% said the situation for U.S. Latinos is worse today than it was a year ago, 9% responded that it was better and 22% felt it was about the same. Harris voters overwhelming felt the situation is worsening for Latinos at 89%; 66% of nonvoters agreed with that assessment; and 31% of Trump voters felt Latinos were worse off now than last year.<\/p>\n A plurality of voters who went red in 2024 \u2014 40% \u2014 felt the situation for Latinos in the U.S. was about the same year over year. Additionally, 28% of that voting bloc believed U.S. Latinos are better off now compared with 2024. <\/p>\n This data set lines up with a recent Axios\/Ipsos poll <\/a>conducted in partnership with Noticias Telemundo. <\/p>\n Of the more than 1,100 people surveyed, 65% said that it\u2019s a \u201cbad time\u201d to be Latino or Hispanic in the U.S.; when the poll was conducted in March 2024, that figure stood at 40%. When broken down by party, 84% of Democrats said it was a bad time, compared with 68% of independents and 32% of Republicans.<\/p>\n At 78%, a majority of those polled by Pew felt that Trump\u2019s policies have been more harmful than helpful to the Latino community. Harris voters were once again united against Trump with 97% agreeing that his policies have negatively affected their community. Nonvoters were in agreement with 78% feeling the Republican president\u2019s policies have had adverse effects on Latinos. <\/p>\n Trump voters were split on the issue with 41% saying Trump\u2019s policies have been helpful to Latinos, 34% believing they\u2019ve been harmful and 22% responding that they\u2019ve had no effect.<\/p>\n These findings seemingly muddle the narrative that Latinos nationwide have made a rightward turn politically in recent years. <\/p>\n In the 2024 presidential election, Trump garnered 48% of the Latino vote <\/a>compared with Harris\u2019 51% share and significantly jumped past the 36% clip that he got in the 2020 presidential election. Initial 2024 exit polls<\/a> actually underestimated Latinos\u2019 Trump support, with the Republican candidate tracking at 46% of the Latino vote on election day.<\/p>\n Additionally, 47% of naturalized citizens of all ethnic backgrounds voted for Trump in 2024, compared with 38% in 2020. In that same voting bloc 51% voted for Harris in 2024, a notable drop from the 59% who voted for Joe Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n Latino naturalized citizens recorded a 12% bump in voting for Trump, jumping from 39% in 2020 to 51% in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump has united the Latino vote … in its disdain for the policies of his second term.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[42175,42179,42173,42177,48,52,51,42174,42171,42178,11703,47,50,49,42172,5409,6283,42176,1519,2281,72],"class_list":["post-71867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-approval-rating","tag-fledgling-economy","tag-harris-voter","tag-job-trump","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-latino-nonvoter","tag-latino-trump-voter","tag-latino-vote","tag-latinos","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-new-pew-study","tag-policy","tag-president","tag-situation","tag-trump","tag-u-s","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}