{"id":438099,"date":"2026-10-26T06:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/438099\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:44:22","slug":"what-does-trumps-declining-latino-support-mean-for-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/438099\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Trump\u2019s Declining Latino Support Mean for Florida?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one ad<\/a> in September, Salazar said that Trump has \u201cgone too far” with his deportation agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record,\u201d she notes in the ad.<\/p>\n

\u201cBe careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policy,\u201d Salazar continues, addressing Trump. \u201cThe same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why Latino frustration may not translate into Democratic votes<\/p>\n

Guillermo Grenier, a Cuban American professor of sociology<\/a> at Florida International University (FIU), agrees that many Latino voters are \u201cticked off\u201d at Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe population, if you look at the whole Latino conglomerate, is turned off pretty strongly with Trump,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

But South Florida\u2019s Latino electorate is unique; Grenier points out that the state is home to 1.9 million Cuban Americans\u2014the largest concentration in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a voting bloc, the community has significant sway. In 2024, FIU\u2019s Cuba poll<\/a> found that 68% of likely Cuban American voters in Miami-Dade County supported Trump, compared to 23% for Harris\u2014representing his highest-recorded support level in the poll’s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In one ad in September, Salazar said that Trump has \u201cgone too far” with his deportation agenda. \u201cIn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8131,409,28,30,29,31461,4522,15699,41087,6688,4219],"class_list":["post-438099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-latino","tag-latinos","tag-midterms","tag-news-desk","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438099","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=438099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}