Key Point: “Trump’s support is falling among Latinos across gender and age categories, with his favorability 20 points underwater, per a new poll by left-leaning Latino voter group Somos Votantes that was first reported by Politico.”

Axios: Latinos sour on Trump over tariffs, the economy, immigration raids

• Latinos’ rising discontent could mean trouble for the GOP heading into the 2026 midterms, and undermine Republican redistricting efforts — namely in Texas — partly aimed at exploiting the party’s recent gains among such voters.

• Trump’s tariffs have South Texas farmers on edge as crop sales decline, while Latino small-business owners — from bootmakers to small retailers — say their costs are rising.

• Grocery prices are up in most categories, and border ports, which are key sources of economic activity in the American Southwest, face financial uncertainty.

• Meanwhile, Trump’s immigration crackdown by masked federal agents occasionally has involved arrests of Mexican Americans and other U.S.-born Latinos, leading to protests and complaints of racial profiling in several cities.

• And Trump’s push to deport not just dangerous criminals, but also nonviolent undocumented workers and some legal immigrants, has exacerbated labor shortages and helped to fuel inflation in some sectors.
  
  
• Just 32% of Hispanic voters approved of Trump’s performance in a Reuters/Ipsos poll last month — his lowest mark this year.

• A quarter of Latinos who backed Trump last November were either disappointed in his performance or regretted voting for him, according to findings in July by the research firm Equis.