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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

‘The writing is on the wall’: Republicans warn of slipping Latino votes amid Trump’s deportation blitz and flailing economy

Latino Republicans are warning the GOP that the 2025 elections earlier this month show that their party risks losing the gains President Donald Trump made with Hispanic voters in 2024.

Despite Trump’s rhetoric calling Mexicans rapists, drug dealers and criminals in 2016, he made significant inroads with Latino voters in his 2020 and 2024 campaigns. Those blocs helped him turn Florida from a swing state to deep red and flip states with large Mexican-American populations like Arizona and Nevada into his column.

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