Latino voters’ support for Trump declines, new survey shows

After receiving support from nearly half of Latino voters in the 2024 election, a new report suggests President Donald Trump has lost the backing of a majority of Latino voters surveyed in October 2025.

According to the report from the Pew Research Center, a majority of Latinos disapprove of the President and his economic and immigration policies.

Pew found 70% of Latinos “disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as President,” while 65% disapprove of his administration’s approach to immigration and 61% believe his economic policies have worsened economic conditions.

Arizona State University’s School of Transborder Studies Associate Professor Edward Vargas, PhD, MPH, joined “Arizona Horizon” to discuss the recent report.

“…it’s really kind of this interaction between the economy, immigration policy and rising costs and inflation,” Vargas said, “…which has really been impacting Latinos.”

Vargas expressed that he was not surprised by the results of the Pew Research Center survey, as a mix of Republicans and Democrats was in the sample.

“…if you segment that data, and you break it up by…Latino democrats vs. Latino Republicans, you will see a bigger divide,” Vargas explained, “…so you will see the number to be higher.

Roughly 44% of Latinos in America are immigrants, with many of them in support of border security and keeping the country as safe as possible.

“They said they would be going after criminals, and they’re going after, in fact, citizens…this idea of dual process, Latinos are just saying well you’re picking up citizens as well,” Vargas said, “…there’s this underlying xenophobic racist, in terms of racial profiling that Latinos are feeling.”

Vargas explained how policies like reducing inflation, increasing wages and decreasing costs attracted lots of Latinos, particularly men, to President Trump in his 2024 campaign.

“If the issue on the ballot is the economy,” Vargas explained, “…typically Republicans do well in those elections.”