The much-discussed Hispanic turn in support of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race is fading, according to new polling from Pew Research.
In earlier data, Pew reported Hispanic voters were divided in 2024, “a major shift from 2020 and 2016. In 2020, Joe Biden won Hispanic voters by 25 percentage points, and Hispanic voters supported Hillary Clinton by an even wider margin in 2016. But Trump drew nearly even with Kamala Harris among Hispanic voters, losing among them by only 3 points.”
But by November of this year, The New York Times reported: “In the recent New Jersey governor’s race, the Democratic Party clawed back much of the ground it had lost with Hispanic voters in the 2024 presidential race, according to a township-level analysis of results by The New York Times. The results are stark: The heavily Hispanic areas that shifted the most to the left in 2025 were virtually a mirror image of the places that had swung the farthest to the right in 2024. The outcome suggests that President Trump’s surge of support among Hispanic voters last year may have been fleeting, or at least not transferable to other candidates in his party.”
Now comes more data from Pew that shows further divides among Hispanic voters about Trump and his administration.
“Latinos have grown pessimistic in the year since the 2024 presidential election,” Pew reports. “Most say their situation in the United States has worsened. And as Donald Trump’s second term unfolds, Latinos are increasingly critical of his job performance and his administration’s immigration and economic policies — two key issues for Latino voters in last year’s election.”
By November, 70% of Latinos said they disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president and 65% disapprove of his approach to immigration. Also, 61% say Trump’s economic policies have made economic conditions worse.
There’s a caveat, however. Hispanics who voted for Trump in 2024 still “express strong support for the president and his policies, while those who voted for Kamala Harris hold deeply negative views,” Pew notes. “For instance, 81% of Latino Trump voters approve of the president’s job performance, though this share has declined from 93% at the start of his current term. Meanwhile, nearly all Latino Harris voters disapprove of the president.”
This is important, in part, the Pew report says, because Latinos are the nation’s second largest racial or ethnic group, accounting for one in five Americans. They also are among the fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States.
With Trump at the helm, U.S. Hispanics are pessimistic about their standing in America, Pew says. “About two-thirds (68%) say the situation of U.S. Hispanics today is worse than it was a year ago, while 9% say it’s better and 22% say it’s about the same. This is the first time most Hispanics say their situation has worsened in nearly two decades of Pew Research Center Hispanic surveys.”
Hispanics’ concerns stem from the economy, their perceived place in the nation, and Trump’s deportation campaign.
Pew found 52% of Latino adults say they worry a lot or some that they, a family member or a close friend could be deported by Trump. This is up from 42% in March. A majority of Latinos (59%) say they have seen or heard of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids or arrests in their community in the past six months.
Latinos told Pew they are increasingly critical of the administration’s approach to deportations — 71% say it is doing too much when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the country illegally, up from 56% in March.
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