Poll finds Latino voters shifting back to Democrats, disapproving of Trump ahead of midterms

Latino voters, who shifted Republican in the 2024 presidential election, view the party more negatively than they have in the past decade, according to an NBC News/Telemundo poll released on Monday.

Latino voters’ prefer Democrats take control of Congress after the midterms and their opinions of President Trump’s performance remain poor, according to a new poll by NBC News and Telemundo.  While the Latino vote was key to Trump’s win in 2024 as many Latino voters swung to the right, that trend may be reversing. Among...

Two recent polls show that the majority of Latino voters have all but abandoned President Trump—reaffirming a development that’s been brewing since he returned to office and began his draconian immigration crackdown. The new NBC News/Telemundo poll has Latinos going for Democrats by a margin of 59 percent in the upcoming midterm elections, almost doubling their support from 2024. The new CBS News/YouGov poll tells a similar story, with 60 percent of Latino voters preferring Democratic House candidates. Overall, 69 percent of Latino voters disapprove of President Trump’s performance ahead of the midterms.This comes two years after Trump won a groundbreaking 42 percent of them, sparking discourse about a new multicultural Republican coalition. That dream seems to be all but dead, as those same voters have responded extremely negatively to Trump’s handling of the economy, his lack of action on the affordability crisis, and his mass deportation campaign. This doesn’t necessarily mean that these voters will automatically turn out for Democrats now—more Latinos (42 percent) still have a negative view of the party, as it has not fully taken advantage of two years of violent arrests, kidnappings, shootings, pepper balls, and killings.

NBC News polling shows 69% of Latino voters disapprove of Trump as Democrats hold a 24-point edge ahead of the 2026 midterm elections races.