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.
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.
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.