More than half of Latino voters in the United States, 51%, support Democratic candidates for Congress, while three out of four, 74%, disapprove of US President Donald Trump’s performance, according to a new survey published this Friday by the Pew Research Center.
24% of registered Hispanic voters support Republican congressional candidates, 18% remain undecided, and 7% favor other minor parties or independents, according to the poll, published less than three weeks before the November 3 midterm elections.
Fifty-five percent of Latinos perceive their vote as “a vote against Trump,” while only 14 percent consider it a show of “support,” and for 30 percent, Trump does not influence their vote, added the report from the organization, one of the leading demographic research centers in the United States.
Although Trump received almost half of the Hispanic vote in the 2024 elections, a record for a Republican presidential candidate, Pew Research Center recalled that only a fifth of this group, 21%, now approve of his performance.
Among those who voted for Trump in 2024, approval is 57%, and almost two-thirds (65%) will support Republicans in the legislative elections.
Overall, 70% believe that the president’s policies “have been harmful” to Hispanics, and 61% believe that conditions for this group “have worsened” in the last year.
Latinos also listed access to health (80%), education (75%), and the future of democracy (69%) as priorities.
In economics, 80% are “very concerned” about the price of gasoline and energy, as well as housing, while 78% said the same about the cost of food and consumer goods, and 77% about the cost of medical care.
On immigration, after a record monthly 50,000 immigration arrests in August, the highest figure of Trump’s second term, 62% indicated that the Government is “doing too much” in terms of deportations, but 22% thought it was “appropriate” and 14% that it was “too little.”
The survey was conducted online and by telephone with 774 registered Latino voters from September 28 to October 4, in English and Spanish, with a 95% confidence level and a 4.8% margin of error.