--- title: "Latino Voters Back Democrats by 24 Points as Trump Approval Falls to 27%, Polls Find" description: "Polls released Sunday show the bloc that helped elect President Trump now prefers Democratic control of Congress, 59 percent to 35 percent." author: "rews desk" published: 2026-10-04T16:32:31.346Z modified: 2026-10-05T09:18:26Z url: https://rews.cc/a/latino-voters-back-democrats-by-24-points-as-trump-approval--8a9006 language: en tags: ["politics", "trump", "economy", "immigration", "polls", "us"] publisher: "Rews (https://rews.cc)" --- # Latino Voters Back Democrats by 24 Points as Trump Approval Falls to 27%, Polls Find *Polls released Sunday show the bloc that helped elect President Trump now prefers Democratic control of Congress, 59 percent to 35 percent.* By rews desk · October 4, 2026 · https://rews.cc/a/latino-voters-back-democrats-by-24-points-as-trump-approval--8a9006 ## In brief - Latino voters prefer Democratic control of Congress 59% to 35%, double the Democrats’ 12-point edge at this point in 2024 (NBC/Telemundo) - Trump’s approval among Latinos is 27%; just 20% approve of his handling of the cost of living - Among Latino men, Trump’s approval is 33% and Democrats lead the congressional ballot 53% to 39% - 67% say immigration enforcement has gone too far; about a quarter know someone deported or detained by ICE in two years - Views of the Democratic Party also worsened: 42% of Latinos now see it negatively, up four points from 2024 Latino voters, whose rightward shift helped return President Trump to the White House in 2024, have swung sharply back toward the Democratic Party ahead of November’s midterm elections, according to two national polls released Sunday. In an NBC News/Telemundo survey, Latino registered voters said by 59 percent to 35 percent that they preferred a Democratic-controlled Congress, a 24-point margin that doubles the 12-point edge Democrats held with these voters at the same point in 2024, though it remains narrower than the party’s advantage with Latinos ahead of the 2018 midterms. A CBS News/YouGov poll found Latino likely voters favoring a Democratic House candidate, 60 percent to 39 percent, with likely voters over all favoring Democrats by nine points. [Recent polling in seven battleground states](https://rews.cc/a/latino-voters-turn-back-to-democrats-before-midterms-as-repu-dce539) pointed the same way. The stakes are plain in the numbers from two years ago: the country’s roughly 36 million Latino registered voters veered from a long record of backing Democrats, and exit polls showed Mr. Trump winning 46 percent of their vote to 51 percent for the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris. In the NBC/Telemundo poll, 27 percent of Latino voters approved of Mr. Trump’s job performance and 69 percent disapproved. Just 20 percent approved of his handling of the cost of living, with 78 percent disapproving, and 74 percent disapproved of his handling of the economy. Sixty-five percent said his policies had hurt economic conditions, and 63 percent said their household income was falling behind the cost of living. Voters picked the Democratic Party as better able to handle the economy by 48 percent to 27 percent, a 21-point advantage that reverses 2024, when Mr. Trump led Ms. Harris on the issue by four points. The movement includes Latino men, whose embrace of Mr. Trump two years ago was one of that cycle’s bigger surprises. His approval among them now stands at 33 percent, with 64 percent disapproving, and Democrats lead them on the congressional ballot, 53 percent to 39 percent. Latina women favor Democratic control by 62 percent to 31 percent. A retreat among Latino men could cost Republicans in competitive House districts and statewide races in Texas, Nevada and Florida, Newsweek reported. Even immigration, on which 30 percent of Latino voters still approve of Mr. Trump’s performance, is cutting against him. Two-thirds, 67 percent, said the administration had gone too far on enforcement, against 22 percent who said it had taken the right approach, and about one-quarter said they knew someone deported or detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the past two years. The polling arrived amid attention to enforcement tactics, including the July shooting death of a Houston construction worker, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, during an ICE operation, and the nonfatal shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan DoorDash driver. The damage reaches the Republican brand: 62 percent of Latino voters viewed the party negatively, up from 46 percent in September 2024. Yet Democrats have not converted the discontent into affection. The poll found 42 percent viewed the Democratic Party negatively as well, four points worse than in 2024, and NBC News reported that Republican support among Latinos still runs higher than it did before the 2024 cycle. In the CBS poll, 56 percent of registered voters said Mr. Trump was doing a worse job in his second term than in his first, and 70 percent said his policies had led to higher prices for food and groceries. Micah Roberts, the Republican pollster who conducted the NBC/Telemundo survey with the Democratic pollster Aileen Cardona-Arroyo, called Latino voters ‘the swingiest of swing groups’ and the change since 2024 ‘stunning.’ Matt A. Barreto, a pollster on Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 2020 campaign who is faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, told Newsweek that Mr. Trump ‘made wild and unrealistic promises in 2024 about lowering the cost of living, bringing down the cost of gasoline and making healthcare more affordable’ and has not delivered. Democrats, he said, face no ‘automatic rebound’: ‘Democrats need to convince Latinos they are fighting for them and fighting for the middle class to bring down costs.’ Charles Venator-Santiago, a professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, told Newsweek that ‘Trump’s ICE has been racially profiling Latinos \[regardless of citizenship status\] and persecuting Latinos.’ He said, ‘ICE has committed civil and human rights abuses that cross various lines, even for conservative Latinos.’ In a statement previously provided to Newsweek, a White House spokesman, Davis Ingle, called Nov. 5, 2024, ‘the ultimate poll,’ the day ‘nearly 80 million Americans overwhelmingly elected President Trump to deliver on his popular and commonsense agenda.’ Newsweek said it sought comment from the White House, the Hispanic Federation and Voto Latino by email on Sunday. The NBC News/Telemundo poll was conducted from Sept. 21 to 28 among a national sample of 800 Latino registered voters, through live telephone interviews and online surveys sent by text; 20 percent of the interviews were in Spanish. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The CBS News/YouGov poll surveyed 2,166 adults online from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2; its margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points among all adults and 3.1 points among likely voters. ## Sources - [Latino voters sour on Trump and swing toward Democrats, new poll finds](https://cnn.com/2026/10/04/politics/latino-voters-swinging-toward-democrats) — cnn.com - [Latino Men Who Backed Trump in 2024 Turn Away in New Poll](https://newsweek.com/latino-men-who-powered-trumps-2024-win-cool-on-him-in-new-poll-12522333) — newsweek.com