Over the course of the last two and a half years that I have had this blog, I have posted that Trump always finds a way to piss off people, especially Hispanics. He has. Hispanics are turning against him a year into his term.
Working-class Hispanic voters who turned their backs on Democrats to help elect Donald Trump may soon make a U-turn, according to an analysis in Tuesday’s New York Times.
The report listed Trump policies that appealed to Hispanic U.S. citizens and which are currently being carried out: “raids and deportations; the opening of a migrant internment camp at the U.S. base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; the president’s attempt to end automatic citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil; tariffs threatened, then pulled back, on Mexican goods; and the U.S. military dispatched to the border.”
José Menéndez, a Democratic state senator from San Antonio told the Times that the party “needed to lift up its traditional working-class messaging, without ignoring marginalized groups.”
“We need to go back and focus on the kitchen table issues that concern and bother every family. We are the party of the working class,” Menendez said.
Sylvia Bruni, a Democratic Party leader, agreed that the party needed to focus less on issues like abortion and gender “if it wanted to win back socially conservative Latinos.”
Let us get something straight, it is not that Hispanics are socially conservative, most don’t give a shit about that. But yelling Trans Rights, Gay Rights, same sex marriage, does not put bread on the table. It does not pay the mortgage or the rent. Democrats quit being the party of the working class a long time ago; that is why Ronald Reagan won and was able to do what he did. Ronald Reagan was the first Republican I ever voted for; he promised to lower income taxes and lower inflation.
I was working two jobs, and my wife was working too, but we were trying to pay off student loans, a house payment, and everything else one needs to succeed in this country. I was a schoolteacher, working evenings at Sears, selling washers and Dryers. I worked in the summer, trying to make the American Dream
work for me. But every additional dollar I earned from summer work went toward federal income tax.
So quit putting labels on Hispanics that probably the vast majority do not deserve. Don’t think that because you push for the big unions that donate money to your campaigns, they are the vast majority of working people. They are not.
Trump gets urgent New Year’s plea in WSJ op-ed as historic voting bloc abandons him.
Two Hispanic business powerhouses took the president to task on New Year’s Day, warning Donald Trump to listen up or lose big.
Sam Sanchez and Massey Villarreal, co-chairmen of Comité de 100, a bipartisan coalition of Mexican-American and other Hispanic business leaders, issued a stark warning to Trump over his hardline immigration policies in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Together, they said the GOP faces a major voter backlash in 2026 despite 48% of Hispanic voters breaking for Trump in 2024.
“He and his party ought to make a New Year’s resolution for 2026: Listen to Hispanic voters,” they said.
Mass deportations of law-abiding workers are decimating U.S. industries including agriculture, construction, elder care, and hospitality, which are bleeding workers and facing soaring costs. The business leaders said they’re witnessing how Trump’s policies are “eroding support for Republicans.”
The numbers don’t lie. A stunning 68% of Hispanics now say their situation has worsened in the past year, and 61% blame Trump’s economic policies. His approval rating among Latino voters has cratered, with 59% expressing disapproval.
Across the country, Hispanic voters are abandoning Republicans at alarming rates, they noted. Miami elected its first Democratic mayor in 28 years. In Passaic County, New Jersey, which is 43% Latino and which Trump won by 3 points, voters swung 15 points toward the Democrats in the race for governor. Manassas Park, Virginia, saw a stunning 22-point Democratic swing among a nearly 40% Hispanic population.