Pew poll shows Latino support for Trump is slipping : NPR

No Republican presidential candidate in history has done better with Latinos than Donald Trump in 2024.

But there are many signs that support has evaporated. Democrats won big victories earlier this month in elections across the country, with large margins among Latinos. Poll after poll shows Latinos have been losing support for Trump since he was sworn in for a second term.

And a major new Pew survey of more than 5,000 Latinos across two surveys confirms this.

There were some instructive findings, including:

Seventy percent disapprove of President Trump's job performance.

• A majority — 55% — said they strongly disapprove of the initiative.

• Among those who voted for him, Trump dropped 12 points. At the start of his second term, 93% of Latinos who voted for him approved of the job he was doing. Now it is 81%.

The economy is a major concern; Four out of five have a negative view of this and blame Trump.

• The economy was the main reason why so many Latinos switched to voting for Trump in 2024, but they are really unhappy with how they view it now: 78% rated today's economic conditions as fair or poor.

• Trump also did not escape blame. Sixty-one percent said his policies worsened economic conditions; only 15% said they had improved the situation.

• Crucially, half of survey respondents said they had difficulty affording food, housing or health care in the past year.

Two-thirds disapprove of Trump's approach to immigration.

• 71% said Trump is doing too much when it comes to deportations, up 15 points from March.

• More than half are concerned that they or a close friend or family member will be deported.

More than two-thirds say the situation has gotten worse for Latinos.

• This is up 42 points from the last time it was asked in 2021. This includes the 31% of Latinos who vote for Trump.

• Although Democrats feel this more strongly, the result is not the same. controlled by party affiliation. Pew notes that in two decades of conducting this major survey of Latinos, it has never seen Latinos say they are worse off than they were the year before.

• Four in five said Trump's policies have harmed Latinos, including a third of those who voted for him.

Most of them have serious concerns about their place in America.

• Fifty-five percent said they had such serious concerns, up from 48% last year.

• Notably, a third said they had considered leaving the country in the past six months.

• Forty-six percent responded that this was due to the political situation in the country.

• Twenty-six percent said they would like to find a place with a lower cost of living.