{"id":198052,"date":"2026-03-10T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198052\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:57:35","slug":"texas-latino-voters-fed-up-with-trump-new-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198052\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Latino voters fed up with Trump, new poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LatinoLatino voters cast ballots in a recent election. Credit: Shutterstock \/ Alan Mazzocco<\/p>\n

Texas Latino voters have soured on President Donald Trump as he ramps up harsh immigration actions and fails to deliver on economic promises, according to new polling data<\/a> from a one of the nation\u2019s largest Latino civil-rights groups. <\/p>\n

Numbers released by the organization UnidosUS show that just 14% of Texas Latino voters support the Trump administration\u2019s approach to immigration and deportations, while a meager 20% said their economic situation has improved over the past year.<\/p>\n

The numbers suggest that the San Antonio area\u2019s heavily Latino 35th and 23rd Congressional Districts are legitimately in play for Democrats, political strategist Bert Santiba\u00f1ez of Flagship Campaigns told the Current.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s paramount for Latino voters to show up as they did in the primaries,\u201d Santiba\u00f1ez said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just immigration, though. It is obviously critical and grabs headlines, but it\u2019s also certainly the economy that weighs heavily on working-class Latinos.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recently redrawn 35th \u2014 which now includes Bexar County\u2019s exurbs along with Guadalupe, Wilson and Karnes counties \u2014 is already on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) watchlist as a district up for grabs.<\/p>\n

District 35 would have swung by 10 points for Trump during the previous presidential election. However, the president would have won the district as it\u2019s drawn today by fewer than two points during the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

To seize on that opportunity, the DCCC appears poised to back former Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office public information officer Johnny Garcia, a moderate, against his far-left opponent<\/a>, Maureen Galindo, the district\u2019s Democratic runoff.<\/p>\n

Although the DCCC hasn\u2019t formally added the 23rd to its list of \u201cdistricts in play,\u201d Santiba\u00f1ez speculated that may happen soon.<\/p>\n

In that district, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, the GOP incumbent, dropped from his runoff<\/a> as he faced growing outrage over his now-confirmed affair with staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, a woman who took her own life by setting herself on fire last September. <\/p>\n

Gonzales\u2019 primary opponent, far-right gun influencer Brandon Herrera, also known as the \u201cAK Guy,\u201d has plenty of baggage of his own<\/a> in the form of problematic online comments. He\u2019s set to take on Democrat Katy Padilla Stout, a former teacher, in the general election.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that it\u2019s an open seat and there\u2019s not an incumbent, I think that makes that district more appealing [to Democrats],\u201d Santiba\u00f1ez said.<\/p>\n

Despite all the drama the 23rd District, which spans from San Antonio to El Paso, Santiba\u00f1ez maintains that elections in West Texas still come down to real issues more than personalities. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf people are upset and outraged over affordability, then I think they\u2019ll make their voice heard at the ballot box for sure,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a lot of farms and agricultural businesses, so tariffs and the price of food are going to be really impactful in a district like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

One underreported, \u201csleeper\u201d issue in the campaigns for both districts could be candidates\u2019 stances on AI data centers, Santiba\u00f1ez added.<\/p>\n

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