Notable majority feel the country is headed in the wrong direction, and only 27% approve of his job performance

Donald Trump’s standing with Hispanic adults has dropped notably since he took office at the start of the year, according to a new poll.

Polling by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests growing unease among a voting bloc that was crucial to his 2024 re-election victory. The October survey shows that 25% of Hispanic adults now hold a “somewhat” or “very” favorable view of Trump, down sharply from 44% in an AP-NORC poll conducted just before he began his second term.

At the same time, the share of Hispanic respondents who believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction has risen from 63% in March to 73% in October.

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    Many were folks who came here via some “legal” means who looked at those crossing during Biden and resented them. That hatred of folks just trying to find a better life now has an entire gestapo ready to arrest and deport anyone who looks too brown to be in American.

    They thought that all that paperwork made them whole in the Republican eyes. They thought those words saying they were a citizen was enough to made confessed racist look the other way. But an administration that doesn’t care about the law, doesn’t care about what status a sheet of paper says.

    That’s what’s so crazy about letting your hate get to you. That hate comes back to bite you.

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      Yes, they let themselves get deluded by a strong man with an ego the size of Jupiter. All of this was painfully obvious to those that barely paid attention. This is what hate gets you, only more hate.

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      Sadly this is the same the world over.

      In the lead up to Brexit, UKIP had a startling number of foreign names on its roster of candidates. Immigrants and children of immigrants, who were so keen to pull the ladder up behind them and be treated by others as a “true” native, that they devoted serious time and energy to making it happen. They don’t like seeing other immigrants because they involuntarily project their own feelings about those immigrants as outsiders, back onto themselves.

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        I remember back when Priti Patel was Foreign Secretary she was interviewed about her proposed new immigration policy and had to admit that under her rules her own parents wouldn’t have been allowed in the country.

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      You’re saying they essentially wanted to yank up the ladder after themselves? classic conservatives.

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      they think it makes them white, because they 'european descent like whites", for asians they think if they act white enough(being religious and super-conservative(at least for viet people) or look white enough they will be accepted.