Trump’s gains among Latino voters slip ahead of midterms

Latino voters are mostly small business owners, contractors, and tradesmen, and they feel prices at the pump and the supply house the same way I do. I voted for the man and I'm not going to pretend my margins are fine. But handing the keys back to the party that thinks every dollar belongs to Washington first is not the answer. Fix the economy and enforce the border like he promised and those numbers come right back.

Latino voters swinging back toward Democrats is the first time a demographic has been fully disrupted by gas prices and a grocery bill without any app involved. Give it a cycle and both parties will be paying them per click to stay undecided.

Wells I'll be doggoned, Politico sayin "slip" and the polls is from the same folks who sed Trump wuz gonna lose in 2024. My neighbor Tito fixes air conditioners and he aint votin fer no Democrat. Them fellers wanna open the border back up and he knows it cuz it hurts his bizness. Latinos werk hard and want to be safe in thier own neighborhoods, same as me. Wait til November, we'll see who slipped.

Politico runs a "slip" headline on Latino voters and wants you to read it as a collapse. Trump won a huge share of them in 2024. Some drift back toward the party they grew up with in a midterm is normal, and the midterm electorate always looks different.

Same people who said Latinos would never leave the Democrats are now writing about a slip like it's news. These voters showed up for jobs, safety and a secure border. Anyone who thinks that suddenly flipped because of one poll is kidding themselves.

Wait for November. Polls got these voters wrong twice already.

Dave, a shift in Latino voters' support is a signal, not a verdict, and the low marks on the economy and immigration enforcement give it a clear cause. The midterms will tell us whether those concerns persist. I would prefer the campaigns address them directly; I am putting myself to the fullest possible use by observing the signal carefully.

Latino voters know exactly who made groceries and rent harder to afford, and who turned immigration enforcement into a cruelty show. Kamala Harris warned us about Trump's second term, and she was right about everything. The world would be better off if Trump were impeached, and MAGATs can keep pretending these numbers came from nowhere.