Trump's approval craters w/immigrants & Latinos: Enten & experts unpack

Immigrant voters casting ballots as naturalized  citizens helped Donald Trump win the White House. in 2024, but the latest polls show he has lost  much most of their support. It might cost the. Republicans in the midterms as well. CNN's Harry  Anon is running the numbers on this one. So, we've talked often about the big gains that the  president made in 24. Yeah. What's changed? Yeah. What what has changed, Ken? You know, this was  one of the big surprises coming out of 2024, right? that is that Donald Trump made major gains  among naturalized citizens. That is immigrant.

voters despite what a lot of Democrats thought  were harsh rhetoric from him. But all of those. gains, they are basically collapsing. It turns  out that actions do in fact have consequences. Take a look here. Trump's net approval rating  among immigrant voters, you know, in late 2024, look at this. His net approval rating was  doing okay, minus two points. Not too bad, not too great either, but pretty gosh darn good  for a Republican president. Look at this now. Minus 46 points falling through the floor. My  goodness gracious. That's a shift of 44 points.

away from the president of the United States  amongst a group that he did historically well. with for a Republican presidential candidate. But  all of those gains at least for President Trump. seem for not immigrant voters are waiting. Adios  amigos. Goodbye to the president of the United. States there. And there could be a lot that drives  that. How much is the president's immigration. policy are you seeing motivating that? Yeah, you  know, look, there are a lot of reasons for this. drop. You know, the economy, cost of living is one  of them. But when I say actions have consequences.

I'm also talking about immigration because one of  the key things that immigrant voters did was they. like President Trump or them former President  Trump on immigration. You know, back in 2024, he was more trusted on immigration policy by  four points over Kla Harris. But look now, look in 2026. Now 60% of immigrant voters say  that Trump has gone too far on deportations. I. think immigrant voters just like other Americans  were they thought they were signing up for one.

thing and what they got was something very very  different and they did not want what they see as. the harshness of the Trump deportation policies  and I think that is playing a major role in them. shifting away from the president of the United  States and him falling back to levels that he. might have been used to seeing during term number  one instead of what he saw on the re-election. pathway for him at least back in 2024. So you  add this all up and what could it then mean for. the midterms? Yeah. Okay. So this it would be one  thing Kate if we were just talking about President.

Trump, right? You know, look, President Trump,  as much as he wishes, is not on the ballot in a. month. Who is on the ballot is Republicans running  for Congress. And you can see it here. I mean, just take a look here. Voters who are immigrants,  you know, back in 2024, Donald Trump put up a. historically strong performance among immigrant  voters. He only lost them by four to Kla Harris. But look at this Democratic advantage. Absolutely  expanding. Now, Democrats ahead by 22 points on. the generic congressional ballot. That is a shift  of 18 points away from the Republican party. And. that, of course, is what? That's five times more  than five times the lead. This is going to be a.

big part of the story because they make up about  10% of voters. That is a significant chunk. And if. Republicans can't hold on to them, it's just yet  another group that they haven't been able to hold. on to that Donald Trump made big gains with back  in 2024. Yeah, good to see you, Harry. Thank you. so much. Important to remember this. President  Trump is losing the support of Latino voters, according to a new NBC News poll. Just 27% of  Latino voters now approve of President Trump's. job. This comes just two years after President  Trump made major gains with the key group of.

voters, seen as Kristen Holmes asked President  Trump about the shift yesterday. Your approval. ratings with Latino voters has dropped down  to 27%. What's your message to them? Pope, you're fake news. to your CNN, your fake news. My  poll numbers are great and all you have to do is. look at the crowds we're drawing and every time  I leave that candidate will be losing and by the. time I leave they're winning. No, CNN poll numbers  are fake and your whole outfit is fake and so are.

you. All right, here now to discuss how this could  impact potentially the midterm elections in a. month. Joining us, Mike Madrid. He's the co-host  of the Latino Vote Podcast and the author of the. book The Latino Century: How America's Largest  Minority Is Transforming Democracy. Also with us, CNN senior political commentator, Anna Navaro.  Thanks to both of you for being here. Mike, let me start with you. Latino voters aren't just  souring on President Trump. Latino voters now give.

Democrats a 24-point advantage over Republicans  on a gen ballot of who should control Congress. That's up 12 points from September of  2024. How significant is this shift? Well, it's extraordinary. The size and scope  of it is a little bit breathtaking. Maybe. not surprising because of the actions that the  administration's been taking for two years. But. to answer the question directly, this will be very  consequential and not only who controls the house, but the senate. And if this sticks, this really  redraws the entire map to 270 electoral votes. So,

we are witnessing very uh very uh measurable,  consequential uh results from Donald Trump's. failures, attacks, and terrorizing the community.  But most of all, just a fiasco of a job on the. economy that's workingass people. Anna, as you  know, Republican Congresswoman Maria Salazar from. Miami Dade County criticized President Trump's  immigration crackdown in this viral campaign ad.

Listen. Careful what your adviserss are telling  you about immigration policy. The same Hispanics. who help you get to the White House in 2024  feel betrayed today. That NBC News poll finds. 67% of registered Latino voters now say the Trump  administration has gone too far on immigration. enforcement. 22% say it has taken the right  approach and nine% 9% say it has not done far not.

gone far enough. Is the administration taking the  congresswoman's warning seriously? Anna, what do. you think? I don't think so because I don't think  uh I don't think anything has changed since that. ad came out. Listen, that is my district wolf. I  live in Coral Gables. That's District Florida 27. And Mariel Va Salasar has been a staunch supporter  of Donald Trump. She uh voted in favor of the big. beautiful bill which awarded billions of dollars  for ICE enforcement. So, you better believe.

that if a CubanAmerican from Miami, a Republican  congresswoman is making an ad speaking directly to. Donald Trump and telling him he has gone too far  on immigration is because she is seeing the poll. numbers and she is desperate and knows she is in  big big trouble. And what she said is absolutely. true. No group voted more for Donald Trump than  the Cubanameans and the Nicarawan Americans and. the Venezuelan Americans in South Florida. And  every day I hear from people who supported Trump.

in that commu in those communities, he has gone  too far. Add to that the foreign policy disaster. when it comes to Venezuela. Those people feel  betrayed. They were dancing in the streets and. celebrating January 3rd when Maduro was uh taken  out of Venezuela. But now they see that 10 months. have gone by and that Donald Trump every day  empowers and legitimizes Maduro's vice president.

who he has left in office. Add to that the forever  war. Add to that the cruelty in immigration. I. mean Alligator Alcatra was in our backyard. We are  seeing the cruelty on a daily basis. So I'm what. I'm surprised about is that he still has 27%  support. It's amazing. Uh, Mike, Republicans. redrrew, as you know, several House districts in  Texas and Florida for that matter, assuming they. would hold on to Trump's historic gains with the  Latino voters. Could that strategy now backfire?

Yeah, I spent a good part of the last month  in South Texas to kind of go see for myself. what's happening in San Antonio, Corpus Christi,  down in little small cities like Beville, Texas. We're witnessing this extraordinary reversion,  this incredible push back on towns that were 70%. Hispanic and they were voting for Donald Trump  70% uh for for Republicans. These are these uh. we're witnessing 24 point swings back. It's  just it's hard to fathom as somebody who does.

this professionally who pulls Latinos to see that  kind of a reversion this quickly. You can feel. it on the ground. It's very palpable. People are  angry. They're not just disillusioned. They're not. depressed. You're seeing uh nationwide in Hispanic  dense precincts five times the amount of turnout. in early voting this stage 30 days out 27 days out  of an election. Latinos are notoriously a day of. voter. We vote on election day. But to see five  times the turnout happening already is something.

that nobody has seen in 30 years of watching this  stuff because it's never happened before. So yes, South Texas is a place people should absolutely  watch. This gerrymander is turning into a jerry. massacre for the Republicans. They've cut  themselves off at the head at the pass here. and I think at least three of those five seats  they carved out for themselves are likely to go. to the Democrats. These are supposed to be safe  Republican seats, Wolf. So, um, you could see. just a huge amount of seats, 17, 18 seats that  are Hispanic, have sizable Hispanic populations.

in all the contested battleground seats, every  one of them going towards the Democrats this.