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Latino voters were a group that broke for President Donald Trump in a big way in the 2024 election, but now, even more evidence has emerged showing that they are feeling severe buyer's remorse as his presidency wears on.
On Thursday, The Daily Beast published a report about a new survey of 2024 Latino Trump voters conducted by Third Way and UnidosUS, which found "that more than a third of Latino Trump voters say they now regret voting for him."
"Latino voters were central to Trump’s win in 2024, with 43 percent of the demographic voting for him, up from 35 percent in 2020," The Daily Beast explained. "But polls now suggest Trump is losing that support. Two-thirds of Latino voters who responded to the latest poll said they disapprove of Trump’s handling of both immigration and the economy."
Leadership from Third Way remarked that the results do not just show a minor or standard loss of support, but a complete collapse of Trump's 2024 Latino cohort.
“The extent of the bottom falling out on Latino voter support for Trump is pretty staggering,” Lanae Erickson, senior vice president at Third Way, explained while discussing her group's latest finding. “I think we realized it had softened, but it has really just absolutely eroded any gains that he and his party had made through 2024.”
The survey found that, among a host of other issues, Trump has driven away Latino voters the most with his aggressive immigration and deportation agenda. Past surveys and polls have shown that Latinos who voted for Trump were motivate largely by economic issues like affordability, as were most voters in 2024, and believed that his deportation plans would only target the "worst of the worst" criminals, as he repeatedly suggested.
"According to the poll, 41 percent of Latino voters want to 'Abolish ICE,' while 70 percent of Latino voters agree that Trump and Republicans have gone too far on immigration," The Daily Beast detailed. "Other polling has also shown that Latino voters do not support Trump’s focus on deportations."
The report continued: "The UnidosUS poll shows that 66 percent of Latino voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy. That could spell trouble ahead of the midterms in November, with the economy and the cost of living at the top of voters’ minds, even as Trump has called the affordability crisis a hoax. Ahead of the midterm elections, the poll shows Democrats holding a 4-point advantage over Republicans in a generic congressional ballot among all voters. But among Latino voters, that gap expands dramatically, with Democrats leading by a striking 30 points. in more bad news for Trump, Latino voters said they trust Democrats in Congress more than Republicans on every issue in the Third Way and UnidosUS poll."