{"id":1056265,"date":"2025-09-26T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056265"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:45:59","slug":"icymi-donald-trumps-failing-economy-and-dangerous-immigration-agenda-pushing-away-latino-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-donald-trumps-failing-economy-and-dangerous-immigration-agenda-pushing-away-latino-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Donald Trump\u2019s Failing Economy and Dangerous Immigration Agenda Pushing Away Latino Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> <em>\u201cTrump&#8217;s support is falling among Latinos across gender and age categories, with his favorability 20 points underwater, per a new poll by left-leaning Latino voter group <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/T5fNx\/https:\/\/www.somosvotantes.com\/press-releases\/trumps-standing-with-latino-voters-beginning-to-collapse-as-latino-men-and-young-voters-decisively-turn-away\"><em>Somos Votantes<\/em><\/a><em> that was first reported by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/T5fNx\/https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/15\/somos-poll-00563264\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/09\/26\/latinos-trump-discontent-economy-immigration\"><strong>Axios<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Latinos sour on Trump over tariffs, the economy, immigration raids<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Latinos&#8217; rising discontent could mean trouble for the GOP heading into the 2026 midterms, and undermine Republican redistricting efforts \u2014 namely in Texas \u2014 partly aimed at exploiting the party&#8217;s recent gains among such voters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump&#8217;s tariffs have South Texas farmers on edge as crop sales decline, <strong>while Latino small-business owners \u2014 from bootmakers to small retailers \u2014 say their costs are rising.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Grocery prices are up in most categories, and border ports, which are key sources of economic activity in the American Southwest, face financial uncertainty.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meanwhile, Trump&#8217;s immigration crackdown by masked federal agents occasionally has involved arrests of Mexican Americans and other U.S.-born Latinos, leading to protests and complaints of racial profiling in several cities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And Trump&#8217;s push to deport not just dangerous criminals, but also nonviolent undocumented workers and some legal immigrants, has exacerbated labor shortages and helped to fuel inflation in some sectors.<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Just 32% of Hispanic voters approved of Trump&#8217;s performance in a <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/T5fNx\/https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-approval-holds-40-lowest-level-his-term-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-08-18\/%23:~:text=The%20latest%20poll%20showed%20Hispanics,%20a%20group%20that%20swung%20toward%20Trump%20in%20last%20year's%20election,%20have%20also%20soured%20on%20the%20president.%20Some%2032%25%20approved%20of%20his%20performance%20in%20the%20White%20House,%20matching%20their%20lowest%20level%20of%20approval%20for%20Trump%20this%20year.\"><strong>Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/strong><\/a><strong> last month \u2014 his lowest mark this year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A quarter of Latinos who backed Trump last November were either disappointed in his performance or regretted voting for him<\/strong>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/T5fNx\/https:\/\/www.weareequis.us\/research\/memo-july-2025-latino-pulsecheck\">findings<\/a> in July by the research firm <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/T5fNx\/https:\/\/www.equislabs.us\/\">Equis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cTrump&#8217;s support is falling among Latinos across gender and age categories, with his favorability 20 points underwater, per a new poll by left-leaning Latino voter group Somos Votantes that was first reported by Politico.\u201d Axios: Latinos sour on Trump over tariffs, the economy, immigration raids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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