President Trump’s dramatic drop in support from Latinos stunned CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten, who shared polls Monday showing the commander in chief, once popular with the demographic group, is now severely underwater.
Trump’s huge gains with Latinos helped propel him to victory over former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, but his support among the voting bloc is eroding fast, Enten demonstrated, blaming the president’s immigration policies.
“He is 38 points underwater!” Enten said, showing a poll on how Latinos currently view Trump on the issue of immigration.
The data whiz compared it to an October 2024 poll, which showed Latino voters gave Harris only a slight, 2 percentage point edge over Trump on immigration.
“On the issue of immigration – Latinos despise, hate Donald Trump,” Enten declared.
“In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong when it comes to immigration,” he added.
Trump’s overall net-approval rating among Latinos isn’t any better.
The polling guru shared a CBS/YouGov survey showing the president went from -2 points with Latinos in February to a dismal -34 points by late October — just before Republican gubernatorial candidates were defeated in elections in Virginia and New Jersey.
“Oh my goodness,” Enten said, reacting to the poll.
“Again, whatever Donald Trump is doing in office in the minds of Latinos, it is not working,” he added. “They have turned against him in massive, massive numbers.”
To show the impact Trump’s rising unpopularity with Latinos had on the elections earlier this month, Enten took the highest Latino population areas in both New Jersey and Virginia and compared the 2024 election numbers to the numbers from Nov. 4.
“I’m laughing because you never see any numbers like this,” Enten said, as he showed the 52-point shift in Union City, NJ, toward Democratic Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill versus Harris’ margin.
Sherrill “ran away with this,” he noted, adding, “Kamala Harris did win that vote, but by a small margin.”
Meanwhile, in Manassas Park, Va., Democratic Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger was the beneficiary of a 22-point shift from how Harris did last November.
“The idea of what happens to Donald Trump won’t impact downballot, if you’re a Republican, and you believe that, that is fantasyland,” Enten argued.
“Donald Trump absolutely impacted what happened downballot.”