A new Pew Research Center survey found President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen significantly among Hispanic voters who supported him in 2024, raising concerns for Republicans before the 2026 midterms.
President Donald Trump’s approval rating plunged with Hispanic voters who supported him in 2024, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Friday, a red flag for Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Hispanic and Latino voters emerged as a new swing demographic. Although they have historically supported Democrats, they were more divided in the 2024 presidential race, backing former Vice President Kamala Harris by only 5 percentage points, per CNN exit polling. But recent polling suggests the president’s approval has slipped among Hispanic and Latino voters ahead of this year’s midterms, a potential boon for Democrats amid their effort to reclaim control of Congress.
A clear majority of President Donald Trump’s 2024 voters continue to approve of the job he is doing in office, but his rating has declined among this group and the public as a whole – and his standing has dropped more sharply among his Hispanic voters than among his non-Hispanic backers.
This survey conducted in April finds that 66% of Latino Trump voters approve of his job performance. That’s down 27 percentage points since the start of his second term.
Meanwhile, the share of non-Hispanic Trump voters who approve of his performance has fallen by 16 points, to 79%. As a result, the gap in Trump voters’ evaluations of the president has widened since February 2025.
The steeper drop in approval among Latino Trump voters highlights shifts within an important segment of Trump’s electoral coalition.
With fast population growth over the past few decades, Latinos made up the second-largest racial and ethnic group of eligible voters by 2024. About 36 million Latino adults were U.S. citizens and therefore eligible to vote.
Latinos were also more likely to vote for Trump in 2024 than in prior elections. In 2024, 48% of Latino voters backed him, according to the Center’s 2025 study on validated voters, up from 36% in 2020 and 28% in 2016.
