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Donald Trump's approval rating crashes with Latino voters (www.newsweek.com)

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New polling conducted by Somos Votantes and the Global Strategy Group between August 26 and September 4 shows that Trump's net approval rating among Latino voters has dropped from -11 points in February to -23 points in September.

His favorability rating has seen a similar drop, from -12 points in February to -20 points in September.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

1.This soon won't matter since the plan is to purge the country of anyone vaguely looking latino. Remember the "homebrew" comment on El Salvador's prison expansion?

2.What kinds of latinos were supporting Trump? You can speculate. At least we know what kind was not supporting him: "Smart people don't like me!".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Like sheep voting for a wolf. I mean he told them to their face " I hate you, you are not human, you are lower than dirt, and I will come after all of you"

I dunno, I probably wouldn't have voted for the guy.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Little late now, assholes.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Just now? Slow on the uptake

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

...now that it doesn't matter what is approval is.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Didn't a whole bunch of Latino voters throw their support behind him?

Somewhat of a "chickens for KFC" moment there, eh?

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago

For the life of me, I have no idea how he ever managed to convince Latino voters to support him in the 1st place.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Latino guys in trucks working blue collar jobs feel more like white Republican guys to them than liberal democrats. Only problem is that the gop doesn't think that.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Latino culture is just very conservative by nature. There's a lot of factors, religion, (family) education, traditions and just how their communities operate. It's more telling that Trump literally has to threaten deportation or extermination to get them to break ranks than his rhetoric for the past decade, let alone prior to that. If Latinos didn't have brown skin they'd be the model republican. And somehow that drives the power center of the party up a fucking wall thanks to their racist views.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

None of that should matter if you have and use a brain.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

You remember we are talking about conservatives, who are conditioned to shut off their brain, avoid any critical thinking and take what ever "good" people tell them as though it were gospel.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Conservative politics, as John Staurt Mills pointed out, attracts.stupid people. Not.all conservatives are stupid.of course, many are just grifters etc.

"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative" h . John Stuart Mill

And Cipllola defines a stupid person as someone who hurts others even if they hurt themselves.

You have the perfect intersection here of conservative and stupid.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Chickens for McNuggets. The first rule of immigration is shit all over other immigrants.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Any Latino who voted for Trump fucking deserves anything they're getting now. It's not like he didn't tell them exactly how he feels about them for the past decade of American politics.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I told my Mexican brother and wife that I'm going to laugh so hard at them when they eventually get deported, despite both being second generation Americans.

I love my brother but he married a racist piece of shit and is being influenced by her loud, obnoxious ass; I hope they both get what they voted for. Personally I'm not worried about myself because I'm light-skinned, have a white last name, and was raised white by my Polish dad, so I look and act white (brother and sister-in-law are very brown). Only other Mexicans can recognize my mixed race I've noticed.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I remember I would tell my dad over and over again "I hope you get everything your voting for, I hope you get the tarriffs, I hope you get the mass deportations, I hope Trump cuts interest rates to 0% causing inflation to skyrocket, I hope Trump cleans out the federal govt, I hope he does everything he says he's going do cause America needs to learn its fucking lesson"

I stand by everything I said.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

America will learn nothing and millions of underprivileged will suffer enormously.

[-] [email protected] 156 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why gee, 8 months later, the latinos who inexplicably voted for the guy who spat right in their face finally realize he's not their friend?

MAGA voters of all stripes ain't too bright I guess...

[-] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago

I think a lot of it comes down to news and education. Every bit of media they consume assured them that Trump was a no-nonsense tough guy who would tackle head on some of the issues that were of genuine concern to them. There are billions of dollars that go into manipulating the landscape in all kinds of ways to make sure that is all they were presented with. And so, that's the basis they decided on. What else could they do?

Sure, you and me exist in a media landscape where that's a laughable joke, but I don't think you can necessarily blame them for not having lucked their way into the same places that we exist on. The white people, who were waving around signs saying "Mass Deportations Now" and then got all upset when it turned around on them, I think you can blame, but I think a lot of people of a lot of different ethnicities and backgrounds just got fooled by all the propaganda that is so polished and professional at this point.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There are billions of dollars that go into manipulating the landscape in all kinds of ways to make sure that is all they were presented with. And so, that's the basis they decided on. What else could they do?

That's an argument against democracy never working..

Millions of people didn't vote for Trump,.so how come they didn't ?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's a really good question. So democracy isn't a magic bullet. Putin gets elected every term, Hitler got elected (more or less). One element of democracy actually working the way it's supposed to is the freedom to vote, but also one element of it is subjecting the machinery that selects candidates to people's meaningful input, one element of it is a free enough media and educational system so that people will be able to put their votes in with some understanding and knowledge behind them.

Right now, we sort of have the first, kind of, but the second and third elements the US just doesn't have. It's barely functioning. I think it's not really surprising that the results we're getting are so objectively horrifying. I just want to describe the problem in terms of how it actually developed. This whole diagnosis where "Of course the Latinos had perfect knowledge of what Trump was going to do, but they voted for him anyway, so now it's their fault that it's coming true after they voted for him" is just very obviously not true to me. Obviously they were fooled in some sense about it, because he planning to directly endanger them and their families' safety, so we need to get to the bottom of how that happened and what can be done about it in the future. I do think there is some role played by, roughly speaking, "Latino culture is macho in some ways and Trump did macho messaging that appealed to them." But saying that's the whole way it happened (as some people are apparently) is 1,000% missing the point to me.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

Oh fuck that, quit letting idiots off the hook for being idiots. There was, and still is, an absurd amount of information readily available about how shitty Trump is. If the people you're talking about cared at all they could have found it easily, but they didn't. That's not anyone else's fault but theirs.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

What else could they do?

Have memories that go back to 2016-2020

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

But this was the first Trump presidency. They had gone through it before. They knew what was going to happen.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Should've been zero to begin with

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This is net approval, 0 is a good number to have.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

The leopards be feasting

[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago

They won't be able to vote, so it doesn't matter.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

2028 will only be white, cis, land-owning men voting.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

And even their votes won't count. The numbers will be mostly made up.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

To all you Latino voters that voted for this pile of shit, especially you Cuban Americans in Florida that should 100% know better..

Fuck you and feed the leopard.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Many Cubans still support Trump .:)

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-14/floridas-cubans-are-now-divided-on-trump-he-acts-like-fidel.html

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

They support fascist.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

And this is why Trump is going to create an emergency or declare war before the 2026 elections.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

It was wild how high it was to begin with. I used to work with such a dude. His parents came illegally but he was a citizen and would basically say "fuck you, I got mine" about all the "wetbacks" coming in. Working with that guy felt like being in the Clayton Bigsby skit from Chapelle Show.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

This just tells us they are just as stupid as whites. They could have seen this coming as easily as whites.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

50% of both groups have below average intelligence.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

But hey, he promised: if you vote for me you'll never have to vote again!

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Only -11 points? Thats all?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Too little too late

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Does this demographic also have to be supervised at meal times lest they try to eat the cutlery?

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