Majority of Latino voters disapprove of Trump, Pew study finds | Donald Trump

A majority of Latinos disapprove of Donald Trump and his economic and migration policies, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.

After receiving the support of nearly half of Latino voters in the 2024 election, Trump had lost the support of a majority polled in October. Pew found that 70% of Latinos “disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president,” while 65% disapprove of his administration’s approach to immigration and 61% believe his economic policies have made economic conditions worse.

Trump won 48% of the Latino vote in 2024, up from 28% in 2016. Latinos, one of the fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States, make up one in five Americans.

After the 2024 election, Latinos, particularly Latino men, credited Trump’s economic proposals and immigration policies — suggesting he was not serious about threats of mass deportations — for winning their vote.

At the time, two-thirds of Latinos said they “didn’t feel like he was talking about me” when Trump discussed his immigration policies, and more than 40% approved of his proposal to build a border wall, according to an October 2024 Siena poll for The New York Times.

But since Trump implemented drastic tariffs and welfare spending cuts, alongside aggressive immigration raids, that support has waned. In June, a co-founder of Latinas for Trump criticized widespread immigration-related arrests as “unacceptable and inhumane.”

November election results showed that Democrats won back Latino voters in gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia.

Changes in the Latin American electorate are still sharply divided along political parties. According to the Pew report, while almost all Latinos who voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election disapprove of Trump, 81% of those who voted for Trump approve of the president’s job (up from 93% at the start of his term).

A majority of Latinos fear that they, a family member or close friend could be deported under the president’s strengthened immigration measures – while 42% of them expressed this fear in March, 52% do so now. Nearly 60% said they had witnessed or heard about immigration-related searches or arrests in their community in the past six months.

For the first time in nearly two decades, Pew reported that “most Hispanics say their situation has gotten worse.” While 10% of Hispanics told Pew that Trump’s policies have helped them, 78% said the president’s policies have harmed their community.