{"id":234302,"date":"2026-04-16T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:38:09","slug":"why-florida-hispanics-remain-more-supportive-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234302\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Florida Hispanics remain more supportive of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"President<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump attended UFC 327 at the Kaseya Center on April 11, 2026, in Miami.<\/p>\n

Photo by Matias J. Ocner<\/p>\n

mocner@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n

It may be no mystery why President Trump has visited Miami three times over the past six weeks and gone more than half a dozen times to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach so far this year: New polls show that Latino voters are abandoning him in record numbers nationwide, but to a lesser extent in Florida.<\/p>\n

While Florida Hispanics are increasingly less enthusiastic about Trump \u2014 recently electing a Democratic mayor in Miami and flipping a Republican state Legislature seat in Trump\u2019s own Palm Beach district \u2014 the state\u2019s Latino population is still less opposed to Trump than in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

In South Florida, despite falling approval rates, Trump can still count on standing ovations to project a sense of popularity. In his latest visit to Miami, on April 11, he attended an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) match during Vice President JD Vance\u2019s high-stakes peace talks with Iran.<\/p>\n

A new Latino Public Opinion Forum poll by Florida International University\u2019s Latin American and Caribbean Center shows that Trump\u2019s approval rate among Hispanics<\/a> nationwide has fallen to 31%.<\/p>\n

By comparison, Trump won the 2024 election with 46% to 48% of the Latino vote, according to exit polls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been a surprising erosion of the Latino vote for Trump over the past 14 months,\u201d says Eduardo Gamarra, who led the national poll of 1,054 Hispanic adults. About 67% of Latinos nationwide now disapprove of the president\u2019s job performance, the poll shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main concern of Hispanic voters is the economy, which was precisely the issue that got Trump elected in 2024,\u201d Gamarra told me.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s job performance disapproval rate among Latinos is 76% in Arizona, 72% in California and 71% in Texas. Florida is more resilient at 54%, largely because Trump still enjoys 53% support among the state\u2019s Cuban-Americans.<\/p>\n

Gamarra noted that the poll was taken shortly before the start of the Iran war. If it were taken today, Trump\u2019s numbers would likely be worse because of the rise in gasoline prices, he said.<\/p>\n

Other recent polls of Latino voters show similar troubling signs for Republicans as the November mid-term elections approach.<\/p>\n

A new nationwide survey by Somos Votantes finds only 30% of likely Latino voters<\/a> say they support Trump. That\u2019s up to an 18% drop from Trump\u2019s Hispanic vote in the 2024 elections, which pundits say was decisive to help him return to the White House.<\/p>\n

Referring to the November mid-terms, Somos Votantes said that \u201cTrump is a significant electoral liability, with deeply negative ratings on every measure \u2014 and his worst numbers on the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melissa Morales, president of the group, said in statement that \u201cour data shows that the cost of living isn\u2019t just an issue \u2014 it\u2019s the verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, neither Gamarra nor the Somos Votantes organizers believe this dissatisfaction will automatically trigger a Democratic landslide in November.<\/p>\n

While Democrats enjoy a 15% partisan advantage in most states, \u201cthe data also makes clear that Democrats have not secured a victory in November,\u201d the Somos Votantes survey said. Democrats are vulnerable on government waste, crime and fiscal credibility, which means that \u201cLatino voters are demanding their support to be earned,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Democrats still trail on crime and safety, where a slim majority of Latinos trust Republicans more, as well as in efforts to root out government waste.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, a significant 44% of Latino voters support deportations, even as 70% of those surveyed oppose ICE tactics. On foreign policy, polls show that the biggest priority for Latinos is combatting drug trafficking and organized crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoughly half of Latino voters also express concern that Democrats prioritize issues disconnected from families\u2019 economic reality,\u201d the Somos Votantes study said.<\/p>\n

The message of these polls for Democrats is clear: if they stick to affordability issues and stay away from some progressive gender and cultural issues that alienate religious Hispanic voters, they have a good chance of winning Congress in November. And if Democrats pick a moderate candidate for 2028, they can win the White House.<\/p>\n

The message for Republicans? If they continue to back Trump\u2019s claims that the economy is doing great, fail to criticize the president\u2019s memes playfully depicting himself as Jesus and keep justifying violent ICE arrests of legal asylum seekers, they are almost guaranteed to continue losing the Hispanic vote \u2014 and probably the next election.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss the program \u201cOppenheimer Presenta\u201d on Sunday nights on CNN en Espa\u00f1ol, or on the YouTube channel \u201cOppenheimer Presenta.\u201d Blog: andresoppenheimer.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump attended UFC 327 at the Kaseya Center on April 11, 2026, in Miami. Photo by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-234302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}