| As House Republicans’ reckless government shutdown enters a fourth week, their dysfunction is costing them with Latino voters.
New AP-NORC polling shows Latino voters are fed up with Trump’s chaos and anti-Latino policies that are punishing hardworking families, driving up costs, and pushing away voters in droves.
Trump and Republicans promised voters an affordable cost of living and real solutions, yet all they have done is slash health care access, push cost-spiking tariffs making everything more expensive, and shut down the government. Their empty promises and cruel agenda are leaving Latino families, and their winning chances, in the dust.
DCCC Spokesperson Bridget Gonzalez:
“House Republicans are wildly out of step with Latino voters who are feeling the pain every time they visit the grocery store, pay their bills, and try to get health care, and President Trump and his Republican allies keep making these struggles worse. Latino families want leaders who fight for their futures, and they will hold Republicans accountable for their broken promises at the ballot box next November.”
AP: Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanics since January, a new AP-NORC poll finds
- President Donald Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a new AP-NORC poll shows, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory in the 2024 election.
- The October survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 25% of Hispanic adults have a “somewhat” or “very” favorable view of Trump, down from 44% in an AP-NORC poll conducted just before the Republican took office for the second time. The percentage of Hispanic adults who say the country is going in the wrong direction has also increased slightly over the past few months, from 63% in March to 73% now.
- The shift could spell trouble for Republicans looking to cement support with this group in future elections. Many Hispanic voters were motivated by economic concerns in last year’s election, and the new poll shows that despite Trump’s promises of economic revitalization, Hispanic adults continue to feel higher financial stress than Americans overall.
- Alejandro Ochoa, 30, is a warehouse worker in Adelanto, California. He identifies as a Republican and voted for Trump last year, but he’s now unhappy with the president. He criticized some of Trump’s budget cuts, adding that the cost of groceries is too high and buying a home is still unattainable for him.
- “He was kind of relying on essentially the nostalgia of, ‘Hey, remember, before COVID? Things weren’t as expensive,’” Ochoa said. “But now it’s like, OK, you’re in office. I’m still getting done dirty at the grocery store. I’m still spending an insane amount of money. I’m trying to cut corners where I can, but that bill is still insanely expensive.”
- In March, 41% of Hispanic adults approved of the way Trump was handling his job as president, but now that has fallen to 27%.
- Over the past few months, Hispanic communities have also been a target of the president’s hard-line immigration tactics. The poll found that Hispanic adults’ approval of his handling of immigration has declined slightly since March.
- Some see the two issues as linked. Trump’s attacks on immigration have affected low-wage and high-skilled workers alike, at a moment when the economy is already uncertain because of his erratic trade policies.
- The poll found particularly high levels of financial stress among Hispanic adults, compared with the rest of the country. More Hispanics say the cost of groceries, housing and health care and the amount of money they get paid are “major” sources of stress, compared with U.S. adults overall.
- Views of Trump have even soured a little among Hispanic Republicans.
- In another potentially worrying sign for the president, younger Hispanics and Hispanic men — two groups that swung particularly dramatically toward him in last year’s election — also see him a bit more negatively.
- About two-thirds of Hispanic adults under age 45 and Hispanic men now view Trump unfavorably, according to the new poll. That’s a slight uptick from September 2024, when about half in both groups had a negative opinion of him.
- Other concerns about Trump’s chaotic second term emerged in interviews.
- “My major concern is the disregard for the Constitution and the law, and then also the level of cronyism,” said Covarrubias, who is an independent voter. “The people at the top are just grifting and taking, and then there’s the rest of us.”
- The AP-NORC poll of 1,289 adults was conducted Oct. 9-13, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. The margin of sampling error for Hispanic adults overall is plus or minus 6.9 percentage points.
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