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Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

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Notable majority feel the country is headed in the wrong direction, and only 27% approve of his job performance

Donald Trump’s standing with Hispanic adults has dropped notably since he took office at the start of the year, according to a new poll.

Polling by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests growing unease among a voting bloc that was crucial to his 2024 re-election victory. The October survey shows that 25% of Hispanic adults now hold a “somewhat” or “very” favorable view of Trump, down sharply from 44% in an AP-NORC poll conducted just before he began his second term.

At the same time, the share of Hispanic respondents who believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction has risen from 63% in March to 73% in October.

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Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

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Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

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Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/oct/25/trump-hispanic-approval-rating

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Citizens are getting harassed and brutalized by ICE. Prices are skyrocketing and unemployment is surging. The approval rating should be much lower.
- Trump is doing what was promised. A lot of scumbags are very happy.
  
  Right? Like it's weird so many people are saying "This isn't what I voted for." Yes, it is exactly what you voted for.
  
  That's a lot of scumbags.
- Don't get it twisted, white Latinos voted for exactly that, delusionally thinking that the only ones who would be harassed and deported were Latinos less white than them. They're only opposed more because they found out that the WASPs didn't consider them white the hard way.
  
  asians: vietnamese, and some chinese in florida too. asian people are next after hispanics.
  
  Which I really don't get. We're called WASP for a reason. It's not just because it's "white Anglo Saxon protestant" it's because we're scary in any amount.
  Like shit, I'm far more terrified of other WASPs than any other categories of people.
  (Well, ok I guess technically I'm not protestant anymore, but I consider being raised that way enough.)
  
  I went to high school in the mountains of WNC and we had a few Cuban families and They still live in the west of Asheville area and they a hardcore MAGAites to the point of them endorsing P2025 to my face at a big class reunion about a year and a half ago. I saw one of them a about 3 months ago and he was still going on about getting all the illegals out of here. I understand his parents came here to get away from Castro but they want to pull up the ladder behind them. The Hmong are the same. I live in a big Hong area now and fuck me they are fucking rabidly conservatives Trump voters.
- conservatives as a whole still support him. are they all maga, republican hispanics?
I mean. I have no idea why the fuck any of them, no matter how "conservatives values" they might have been, would have supported this dumbass. Did they not even see Stephen Miller in his first term?
It's still 25%? What. The. Fuck.
- Bro Spanish language radio in South Florida is absolutely wild with the propaganda. I wasn't in the least bit surprised when I saw the polling numbers.
  
  Is that aimed primarily at Cubans? What is an example of some of the propaganda?
27% of people still haven't realised they're next.
25% of Hispanics still approve of Trump? Holy hell, I thought 2020 showed us how stupid humans can be, but this is on a whole other level!
- They're the "fuck you, I got mine" people that will be shocked when they ultimately turn on them.
- Anyone who votes for Trump who is not a millionaire is an idiot, but anyone who is not a white male really is fucking stupid.
  
  Millionaire isn't even enough to benefit from the grift! Basically middle class.
  You have to have tens of millions to have come out on top here...
  So many dumb people.
- Americans are on a whole new level
- Some of my cousins are incredibly stupid people who watch Fox News all day.
It never should have gotten here... I'm incredibly disappointed in Hispanic voters, especially males, SMH.
- Many were folks who came here via some "legal" means who looked at those crossing during Biden and resented them. That hatred of folks just trying to find a better life now has an entire gestapo ready to arrest and deport anyone who looks too brown to be in American.
  They thought that all that paperwork made them whole in the Republican eyes. They thought those words saying they were a citizen was enough to made confessed racist look the other way. But an administration that doesn't care about the law, doesn't care about what status a sheet of paper says.
  That's what's so crazy about letting your hate get to you. That hate comes back to bite you.
  
  Yes, they let themselves get deluded by a strong man with an ego the size of Jupiter. All of this was painfully obvious to those that barely paid attention. This is what hate gets you, only more hate.
  
  Sadly this is the same the world over.
  In the lead up to Brexit, UKIP had a startling number of foreign names on its roster of candidates. Immigrants and children of immigrants, who were so keen to pull the ladder up behind them and be treated by others as a “true” native, that they devoted serious time and energy to making it happen. They don’t like seeing other immigrants because they involuntarily project their own feelings about those immigrants as outsiders, back onto themselves.
  
  They thought they were white.
  
  they think it makes them white, because they 'european descent like whites", for asians they think if they act white enough(being religious and super-conservative(at least for viet people) or look white enough they will be accepted.
- COVID-19-driven inflation under Biden. Inflation is very unpopular.
  
  BS, if they cared about inflation they shouldn't have voted for Trump. Every news org and political correspondent was adamant in letting folks know he'd have a negative effect on the economy. "Tax breaks for the rich" were hammered over and over. At the end of the day we deserve this though. Unfortunately now it needs to be painful for the public to wake up, and that sucks for us all.
- blacks, asians, muslims men went for trump. via roegan, jordan peterson and other right wing grifters that assisted them into the manosphere.
  
  STOP. LUMPING. BLACK. MEN. IN. WITH. THESE. SELLOUTS.
  Black men were the LARGEST male group to vote for Harris. Im sick of ppl trying to claim otherwise.
  Edit; also dont act like men only sold out the country. Trump's second largest voting block was WHITE WOMEN
Man ... what could have happened? Certainly not the exact thing that he said he would do. No, can't be that.
No shit Sherlock. The death camps tend to upset people who get targeted by the secret police.
The question is why the broad community didn't see this coming, to such a large degree.
- Anecdotal from the Mexicans I know that voted for him, I think a lot of people convinced themselves that he was only going to go after the “illegal” by THEIR definition Hispanics; Guatemalans and Venezuelans that are bad at “working hard” and it was going to free up resources for their hard working, attempting access via legal means, family members to enter. I tried to explain why this wouldn’t be the case but it fell upon too many deaf ears. Your anecdotal evidence might vary from mine though!
  
  My sister in law worked among a lot of Latinos for various jobs, and one of the first culture shock moments was when she realized how many slurs were casually thrown around, between the various groups, depending on who was a first-wave immigrant, and where they came from, etc.
  She speaks Spanish fairly fluently, and knows a bit of Portuguese, but looks like a typical suburban white lady, so many things were said within earshot when she was first on the job, LOL.
  So what you are saying seems like something that definitely tracks. People probably just thought that "other group" is going to be targeted, but not us, we're from the right country, we voted Republican, or we've been here first, etc...when the truth of the matter is that someone like Stephen Miller just sees brown people speaking a foreign language, in "his" country, and wants them ALL gone. Even the citizens.
- Especially when he openly said it was coming, over and over again.
  I know Trump lies a lot, but when he says he's going to do something that causes pain to everyone but himself, he's generally telling the truth about that.
I tried so hard to convince some of my fellow Mexicans the repercussions of voting for Trump, I even passed them a copy of the Project 2025 playbook. They still voted for him and are dumbfounded that ICE is dragging them away. Fuck 'em is all I can say.
- I mean, in 2016 he literally campaigned on a platform of keeping Mexicans out of the US. It’s wild that any Mexicans in the US can see that and go “he’ll be the person to do what’s best for me!”
  
  In the first term he just was terrible to those trying to cross the border. If you were already in, his first term was largely nothing if you don't care about others.
  This term has been going after people already here, and rounding up and us citizens and looking to remove legal status for those that have it.
Churches be pushing their political views on these believers. I spoke to one of them when the ice shit started and he was defending Trump under the guise of a libertarian. So after a while of arguing and pointing out his don't thread on me argument and knowing hes a church person, I said is this what Jesus would do? He just said oh my gooood trying to make it look like he wasn't getting through to me and was stuck without a comeback.
It’s F’d up propaganda, and some cultural differences, that led these communities to vote the way they did.
Some Latin cultures want leaders that talk tough, the “machismo” to crack skulls and “get things done.”
Some are very religious, and were taken in by the Right’s monopoly on religious propaganda and “morality.”
Many fled countries and leaders that claimed to be socialist, but were just awful authoritarian kleptocracies with a shitty veneer of socialism for the people. A country with few resources or those resources are financially captured by major western industry (like oil) and most of the profits go to the leaders. Thanks again to Right Wing propaganda associating any Democrat or social policy with socialism, the minorities FUD voted for the Right because “liberal socialists are evil”.
Sometimes they’re just uneducated assholes that can’t look past #1, just like our reich wing, and choose the least effort, lowest thought, solution to a problem…violence, strong-arm tactics, “simple” solutions.
- Five: culture war bullshit, which social media started to push for engagement and potential benefits reasons (the CEOs got pretty pissed off at progressives for not welcoming genAI with open arms, and only the right with its anti-intelectualism was accepting of it), and otherwise unchallenging to most of the status quo.
  Six: the voters' wager: politicians obviously lie, so there's a non-zero chance it'll be all better.
- Don't forget the "fuck you, got mine" mentality, as once they make it, they'll try to beat off others from coming in to be naturalized then trying to have the same privileges they have.
Leading up to the election:
Frantically trying to explain that if you put your hand in the fire, you're going to get burnt.
 
The election:
"Stupid snowflake librul cuk! Would it trigger you if I do... this!?" puts hand in fire
 
Since election:
"Ow! My hand!!" 😢
I hate to say "I told you so".
No, really. I would've much preferred to be wrong about what I thought a second Trump term would look like
- if they voted him 3 times, theres no saving them, especially the first time he did some of what he campaigned on.
Every single racial minority that supported Trump should be forced to donate their bodies to science whenever they die.
That way we can find out what type of brain tumor causes someone to become the ultimate, unceasingly submissive bitch/cuck.
- It’s lead. I’m sure it’s lead. Decades of lead poisoning from gasoline is the reason.
  
  The one I know definitely has Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. Then again, he bragged about his war crimes to me as a kid, so we was always a cruel person.
It was an open book test here. At least people breaking off with him. I guess lol.
They are certainly signing up for ICE in record numbers.
- When the last brown people not in ICE are deported, I guess ICE will start turning on itself to deport all the non-whites.
you mean they spun down the bot farms?
Huh... Would you look at that
These polls don’t really say much. Do they regret or would they change their vote? If there was another election would they still choose Trump over a democrat? Are they blaming the other side and want Trump to do something different?
M experience in Florida is most of those who think “unfavorably” of Trump in no way consider the other side better and would still support Trump over anyone, even Jesus. Bitch and moan and hate is the general rule for maga.
- Voter enthusiasm is correlated with turnout. Less enthused Republican or independent Hispanics are more likely to stay home on election day.
  Agree those who voted for Trump last election are unlikely to switch to voting Democrat, but if they stay home that makes the path to a Democrat victory more viable. And for that, polls like this are a helpful data point.
The amazing thing here is that Hispanic people were dumb enough to vote for him. Anyone who voted for him deserves all the pain he inflicts, but that applies twice for any members of minorities.
- Quite a few gays I know have voted for this dumbass. Three times.
  They seem to be deep in denial that Taco and pals are gunning for them. Maybe it will be after the brown people and trans, but it's coming.
  The base do not forget and they are very sore losers. One thing they don't do is give up. It took them 50 years to reverse Roe, but they did it. They are coming for gay marriage next and I don't see any reason they are going to stop with just that as far as trampling the rights of others...
  
  Maybe show them this... The supreme court is considering whether to hear a case that could be used to reverse it's gay marriage decision from 2015.
That headline implies they supported him before. So... Meh. Have the day you losers voted for.
Nunca pensé que me comerían la cara!!!
Eh, fuck em.
- Fuck who? An entire category of people? Seriously?
  
  Nazis are a category.
  Evil/cruel people who continue to support trump are a categpry.
  Idiots who were continuously told/warned/pleaded with about the catastrophic, cruel, and evil results of another trump term but either thought that they were exempt (but were still OK with the plan) or thought they were super smart pudding brained geniuses and bought into the rw propaganda despite all evidence to the contrary are also a category of people.
  
  Anyone dumb enough to vote against their own interests because the candidate hates the same way they do.
Stupid is as stupid votes
I wonder why...
@MicroWave Too bad some were hoodwinked but there are the ones in the cult. We tried to tell them.
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