Trump's approval ratings just hit a new low. A Latino voter shift could reshape the midterms

[Dulcinea]

(LA Times) With the Iran war in its fifth week, support for President Trump is at its lowest point ever, with a growing body of recent polling showing him losing ground with key voting blocs that helped power his 2024 victory.

While public dissatisfaction is evident among many groups surveyed, the decline in support for the president has been most pronounced among Latino voters.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released March 24 found 36% of voters approve of the president's job performance, the lowest it has been during his second term. The poll found 62% disapproved.

Other polls, such as the AP-NORC poll, placed the figure at 38%.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trumps-approval-ratings-just-hit-100000770.html

[Aristus]

1. Did Hispanic voters find their way back to the fairway?

I truly do not understand the mind set of "I'm going to vote for one of the most viciously racist, unprincipled, anti-family nimrods in American history! I see no way this could backfire!"

[Skittles]

3. misogyny could explain it

Trump could be a lying corrupt multi-felon rapist seditionist but Harris had to be PERFECT.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. An ACTIVE, Republican-hostile Latino electorate would tank the Republican Party in Texas

The Republican Party here in Texas has done very well for itself here in Texas in part because they’ve drawn in Euro-American (aka Anglos) by appealing subliminally as the “White Folks Party” and by the general indifference of Latino Texans to the idea of voting.

Texas Republicans have made some efforts to reach out to Texas Latinos. As much as I disliked Dubya’s presidency, I have to give his underlings grudging credit for at least making some outreach and cultivating some Latino candidates.

This trend was continued by Greg Abbott, although he, too, has chosen to fall in with the racist immigrant-baiting pushed by the likes of Donald John and the Texas Republican Party’s right wing.

In the meantime, Texas demographics have changed since 2000. Texas Latinos are now a plurality in Texas. There have been more of them than Texas Euro-Americans for several years now, and with each year, more and more of them are eligible to vote.

However, I think Orange Julius’ second term may have changed the game board. Many Texas Latinos think of themselves as whites, or close enough that it makes no real difference. For a long while Rick Perry and other Texas Republicans either tacitly approved this mind-set or shrewdly said nothing.

Enter Donald John’s second term and the game has changed. Many Texas Latinos, here for generations, fluent English-speakers, thinking themselves as equals, are are now finding their citizenship, their dignity, their even being thought of Americans under assault by the racist, bigoted assault by the cabal in the White House and other parts of the federal government. The bad old days, which they might or might not have heard of while sleeping through high school American History classes, are back.

And the Texas Republican politicos, which they may have tolerated or perhaps even voted for? Those politicos’ response has either been tepid opposition or, in some cases, outright support for Donald John’s ethnic cleansing.

This is setting the conditions for a major political shift, if not on the scale of what happened in California decades ago.

Steve Miller’s ethnic cleansing might not have serious repercussions in states that are 70 percent Euro-American, but elsewhere some R’s will be facing more angry voters. Texas isn’t Iowa or North Dakota. There can be consequences for bigotry-based policy.