GOP's dwindling Hispanic support is a huge failure [View all]

By Patricia Lopez / Bloomberg Opinion

President Donald Trump’s support among Hispanics was always more fragile than he thought. Now his immigration and economic policies have all but obliterated the gains Republicans made with this group; gains they had started to count on for the midterms and beyond.

A new Pew Research Center Poll shows that Trump’s disapproval rating among Hispanics has soared to 70 percent, with 51 percent signaling “very strong disapproval.” His job approval rating among this group has plummeted to 27 percent.

Sure, you can shrug off a single poll; even one from Pew, which is about as reputable as they come. But when I asked Mike Madrid, the longtime GOP strategist and author of “The Latino Century,” what he made of it, he didn’t hedge. “It’s a historic collapse,” he told me; bluntly, emphatically, as if the political establishment hasn’t quite grasped the magnitude yet.

Should it continue, this could become one of the biggest self-owns in political history. Trump, after all, had succeeded where countless other Republicans had failed. His 2024 support from Hispanics was the highest of any Republican candidate in presidential history.

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