Notable majority feel the country is headed in the wrong direction, and only 27% approve of his job performance

Donald Trump’s standing with Hispanic adults has dropped notably since he took office at the start of the year, according to a new poll.

Polling by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests growing unease among a voting bloc that was crucial to his 2024 re-election victory. The October survey shows that 25% of Hispanic adults now hold a “somewhat” or “very” favorable view of Trump, down sharply from 44% in an AP-NORC poll conducted just before he began his second term.

At the same time, the share of Hispanic respondents who believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction has risen from 63% in March to 73% in October.

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[–] 145 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Citizens are getting harassed and brutalized by ICE. Prices are skyrocketing and unemployment is surging. The approval rating should be much lower.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Trump is doing what was promised. A lot of scumbags are very happy.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Don't get it twisted, white Latinos voted for exactly that, delusionally thinking that the only ones who would be harassed and deported were Latinos less white than them. They're only opposed more because they found out that the WASPs didn't consider them white the hard way.

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  • Which I really don't get. We're called WASP for a reason. It's not just because it's "white Anglo Saxon protestant" it's because we're scary in any amount.

    Like shit, I'm far more terrified of other WASPs than any other categories of people.

    (Well, ok I guess technically I'm not protestant anymore, but I consider being raised that way enough.)

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    [–] 83 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    It never should have gotten here... I'm incredibly disappointed in Hispanic voters, especially males, SMH.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Many were folks who came here via some "legal" means who looked at those crossing during Biden and resented them. That hatred of folks just trying to find a better life now has an entire gestapo ready to arrest and deport anyone who looks too brown to be in American.

    They thought that all that paperwork made them whole in the Republican eyes. They thought those words saying they were a citizen was enough to made confessed racist look the other way. But an administration that doesn't care about the law, doesn't care about what status a sheet of paper says.

    That's what's so crazy about letting your hate get to you. That hate comes back to bite you.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sadly this is the same the world over.

    In the lead up to Brexit, UKIP had a startling number of foreign names on its roster of candidates. Immigrants and children of immigrants, who were so keen to pull the ladder up behind them and be treated by others as a “true” native, that they devoted serious time and energy to making it happen. They don’t like seeing other immigrants because they involuntarily project their own feelings about those immigrants as outsiders, back onto themselves.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I remember back when Priti Patel was Foreign Secretary she was interviewed about her proposed new immigration policy and had to admit that under her rules her own parents wouldn’t have been allowed in the country.

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    [–] 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    25% of Hispanics still approve of Trump? Holy hell, I thought 2020 showed us how stupid humans can be, but this is on a whole other level!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Anyone who votes for Trump who is not a millionaire is an idiot, but anyone who is not a white male really is fucking stupid.

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    [–] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I tried so hard to convince some of my fellow Mexicans the repercussions of voting for Trump, I even passed them a copy of the Project 2025 playbook. They still voted for him and are dumbfounded that ICE is dragging them away. Fuck 'em is all I can say.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, in 2016 he literally campaigned on a platform of keeping Mexicans out of the US. It’s wild that any Mexicans in the US can see that and go “he’ll be the person to do what’s best for me!”

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    In the first term he just was terrible to those trying to cross the border. If you were already in, his first term was largely nothing if you don't care about others.

    This term has been going after people already here, and rounding up and us citizens and looking to remove legal status for those that have it.

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    [–] 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No shit Sherlock. The death camps tend to upset people who get targeted by the secret police.

    The question is why the broad community didn't see this coming, to such a large degree.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Anecdotal from the Mexicans I know that voted for him, I think a lot of people convinced themselves that he was only going to go after the “illegal” by THEIR definition Hispanics; Guatemalans and Venezuelans that are bad at “working hard” and it was going to free up resources for their hard working, attempting access via legal means, family members to enter. I tried to explain why this wouldn’t be the case but it fell upon too many deaf ears. Your anecdotal evidence might vary from mine though!

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    [–] 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I mean. I have no idea why the fuck any of them, no matter how "conservatives values" they might have been, would have supported this dumbass. Did they not even see Stephen Miller in his first term?

    It's still 25%? What. The. Fuck.

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    [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I hate to say "I told you so".

    No, really. I would've much preferred to be wrong about what I thought a second Trump term would look like

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Nope. Don't care. Don't give chicken fried fuck. They were warned but still voted to condemn everyone else because thought they were the "good ones."

    Have the life you fucking voted for

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    27% of people still haven't realised they're next.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It’s F’d up propaganda, and some cultural differences, that led these communities to vote the way they did.

    1. Some Latin cultures want leaders that talk tough, the “machismo” to crack skulls and “get things done.”
    2. Some are very religious, and were taken in by the Right’s monopoly on religious propaganda and “morality.”
    3. Many fled countries and leaders that claimed to be socialist, but were just awful authoritarian kleptocracies with a shitty veneer of socialism for the people. A country with few resources or those resources are financially captured by major western industry (like oil) and most of the profits go to the leaders. Thanks again to Right Wing propaganda associating any Democrat or social policy with socialism, the minorities FUD voted for the Right because “liberal socialists are evil”.
    4. Sometimes they’re just uneducated assholes that can’t look past #1, just like our reich wing, and choose the least effort, lowest thought, solution to a problem…violence, strong-arm tactics, “simple” solutions.
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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    It was an open book test here. At least people breaking off with him. I guess lol.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Churches be pushing their political views on these believers. I spoke to one of them when the ice shit started and he was defending Trump under the guise of a libertarian. So after a while of arguing and pointing out his don't thread on me argument and knowing hes a church person, I said is this what Jesus would do? He just said oh my gooood trying to make it look like he wasn't getting through to me and was stuck without a comeback.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They are certainly signing up for ICE in record numbers.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Every single racial minority that supported Trump should be forced to donate their bodies to science whenever they die.

    That way we can find out what type of brain tumor causes someone to become the ultimate, unceasingly submissive removed/cuck.

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    Huh... Would you look at that

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    That headline implies they supported him before. So... Meh. Have the day you losers voted for.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    you mean they spun down the bot farms?

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