'He acts like Fidel': Trump’s support with Latino voters is 'plummeting'
President Donald Trump's favorability with Latino voters is down 20 points, according to a new poll obtained Monday by Politico.
The poll, conducted by liberal-leaning Latino voter group Somos Votantes, comes a few weeks after The Washington Post reported that Texas Latino voters were starting to turn on the president.
“We voted for him because we want prosperity,” one such voter, Rick Salinas, told the Post, complaining that Trump is deporting people “who are working hard” and who have been in the country for years. He added that the deportations are doing nothing to help the local economy.
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“You’re counting on a Mexican American to vote Republican again? crazy-a—— bet, bro,” Salinas said. “Because down here, what makes a difference is dollars and cents.”
Nearly 50 percent of Latino voters chose Trump in the 2024 election.
Spain's daily newspaper El País shows signs of a much bigger crack in what was previously a stalwart Trump base: Cuban Americans.
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Approximately 68 percent of Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade County, Florida alone supported Trump in the 2024 election, according to a Florida International University (FIU) Cuba Poll.
"Donald Trump has flirted with staying longer in the White House, in the same way in which Fidel Castro — having tasted so much power during his lifetime — decided to lead Cuba for nearly half a century," wrote the Madrid-based newspaper.
It is that reason that the Cuban-American base is starting to split.
Carlos Icaza, a 63-year-old Cuban-American barber, noted "Cubans have never known what a democracy is.”
“They need a [strong]man to tell them what to do," he argued.
Daimarys Hernández, a manicurist whose husband is about to be deported from the Krome Detention Center in Florida, is confounded, telling El País, “The same Cubans who have been here for years don’t realize that Trump acts the same way as Fidel did."
Explaining the 20-point plummet in the most recent poll, Somos Votantes president Melissa Morales told Politico, “What began earlier this year with independents and women has really intensified and spread to basically every demographic subset of the Latino electorate, including groups that once leaned toward him like Latino men."
While National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Mike Marinella called it a "junk poll," Cuban Yaquelín Boni, whose son is currently in ICE custody, disagrees.
I’m no longer interested in being a citizen,” she told El País from her South Florida home. “I’m not going to swear allegiance to this... I never imagined that, after leaving Cuba, I would experience what we’re experiencing here.”
