Has Trump already lost the Latino vote?

The bloc swung massively left last week, more than erasing GOP gains

- JONAH GOLDBERG

LATINO VOTERS' support of Trump surged in 2024, but just a year later, 65% now say it's a "bad time" to be Latino in America.

ALEX BRANDON Associated Press

FOR GENERATIONS, foreign policy eggheads debated the question, “Who lost China?” I'm wondering if election analysts might soon ask, “Who lost Latinos?”

Almost exactly one year ago, President Trump won an impressive election victory. It wasn't the landslide that boosters claim, but it was decisive. And Trump's record-breaking success with Latino voters played a crucial part.

In 2020, Joe Biden won Latinos by nearly 2 to 1 (61% to 36%). Four years later, Trump nearly tied Vice President Kamala Harris for the Latino vote (Harris 51% to Trump 48%). He won Latino men by 10 points (54 to 44) — a 33-point swing in his favor from 2020, according to Edison Research. Along with an impressive showing with Black men, the results led many Republicans to claim the GOP was reborn. “The Republican Party is now a multiethnic, multiracial coalition of hardworking Americans who love their country,” then-Sen. Marco Rubio proclaimed.