Latino voter shifts in Tuesday's elections alarm some Republicans

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Nov. 6, 2025, 4:38 PM EST


Republicans have spent a year cheering President Donald Trump’s gains among Latino voters in November 2024. Now, Democrats’ big wins among Latino voters this week have some Republicans sounding the alarm.

“This is a wake-up call for the GOP,” Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., told NBC News.

Democrats’ double-digit victories in governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as wins in other elections in New York City and California, were driven in part by high levels of support among Latino voters.

Latino voters supported the Democratic candidates this year by at least double-digit margins, according to NBC News exit polling. Latino men, who broke for Trump last year, according to the 2024 exit polls, favored the Democrats in each of the races where exit polling was conducted on Tuesday. In the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial contests, two-thirds of Latino voters supported the Democratic candidates.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/latino-voter-shifts-tuesdays-elections-alarm-republicans-rcna242186

[ananda]

1. Maybe they didn't want the rest of their faces eaten by leopards.

...

[Chasstev365]

2. The GOP is alarmed?

And how the fuck did they think masked Gestapo agents kidapping their grandmothers without due process was going to go over with young Latinos?

[Baitball Blogger]

3. So, the Latinos learned that it wasn't that

The Democrats took them for granted, but that they took the protection the Democrats provided for granted.

[BlueWavePsych]

15. Now the backlash, with a vengeance.

[mopinko]

4. they wanted 'the worst of the worst' gone. not the tamale lady.

i’ve talked to a couple of the mexicanos in my hood. they thought they were safe.

thing is, my daughter used to run a restaurant in suburban chgo. all her cooks were former mexican gang members. covered in tats. big, mean looking guys. when she left, every one of them cried like babies. they came here to STOP being criminals.
they whole thing is bullshit. everyone sees it.

[kimbutgar]

5. How any Latino person can support the orange turd is insane

He started his campaign calling Mexicans murders and racists and that alone should have disqualified him from any Latino voting for him! I wish the Harris campaign had run ads on Spanish language tv the video of him saying this to remind them what a pos he is and how he really feels about their community!

[Deep State Witch]

6. Empty G Read the Tea Leaves

Earlier this fall, when she found out that her kids' ACA premiums were going up. That's when she stopped drinking the Kool-Aid. It just took the rest of the Repukes a little longer to catch on.

[Beausoleil]

7. Wow. Didn't Texas just add thousands of Latino voters

to 5 Democratic districts?

Whoops.

[Phoenix61]

27. I read a commentary saying the redistricting in

Texas assumed the Rs had the Latino vote locked in and if they didn’t it would bite them in the butt. Fingers crossed.

[republianmushroom]

8. They screw them over royally and then they become "alarmed".

damn, you think, dudes.

[Bengus81]

17. Reminds me of farmers and ranchers right here in Kansas. Gettin' a big ole fucking

but hoping for more of the left wing librual socialism in the way of massive subsidy checks.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

9. I'm glad to hear this, but my ? is,

why the fuck would hispanic voters, and, for that matter, Muslim voters, vote for Been A Dick Donald in the first fucking place?
They knew what he was about, he made no bones about it, so, why?

[yardwork]

11. I think a lot of people do not know.

Trump's campaign did a good job (barfed a little when I wrote that) convincing voters that he was the "common sense" candidate and Harris was "extreme."

The portrayal worked, even though it was the opposite of reality. Some people will never wake up. Others knew all along who Trump is and don't care (a lot of right-wing so-called Christians in that group, some of the biggest hypocrites I've ever met).

But millions of voters just didn't bother to become fully informed. They watched the TV ads during Monday night football and voted against the "scary communist DEI lady who wants to give all our money to illegal gangsters because she's crazy." That's how she was portrayed and we failed to refute it.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. "They knew what he was about, he made no bones about it, so, why?"

Because they never realized the underlying white supremacist basis for much of what he is doing and up until now, they were treated and courted as "honorary whites" (remember they are basically a "language group" with multiple ancestral ethnicities and nationalities).

Then all that came crashing down.

[Random Boomer]

21. Because many latinos are conservative

They are raised Catholic, so they've bought in to the whole bogus "family values" bullshit spouted by the GOP, as well as the anti-abortion agenda.

There is a strong misogynistic vein in male Latino machismo, so they really vibe with that part of the GOP as well.

[Beringia]

23. I think they like strongmen, authoritarian, macho

[popsdenver]

24. Or for that matter

Why would ANY minority have voted for Trump, or any other politician???????? Especially Blacks, Mexicans, or anyone in the gay community?????

[bronxiteforever]

10. The GOP could give a rat's behind about Latinos

except for some Cubans (not all of them either). They won’t even swear in a duly elected Latino Congresswoman from Arizona.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Cubans have now been thrown under the bus too

much to their chagrin, and the grumbling in places like FL is growing louder.

[Ilikepurple]

26. They might not care about Latinos, but they definitely care about their votes.

I guess you could say that about the majority of their constituency.

[BlueWavePsych]

14. K&R

[quakerboy]

16. The only ones who arent concerned

Are the ones who believe that Trumps secret police will deal with any potentially problematic voters, votes, or vote counters.

[Raftergirl]

18. At least some of them have finally woken up.

[BradBo]

19. Hispanics are wising up. Even the ones legally here are in danger.

[Fil1957]

20. What did the Republicans think was going to happen?

[Justice matters.]

28. They don't think.

They bully and they always move the goal posts to their advantage, until there's no goal post left at all (breaking laws without any accountability).

[NHvet]

22. Funny thing isn't it

that people have a problem seeing their family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors being drug away by masked men probably never to be seen again. Funny how people react to acts of violence against those looking for a better life for themselves and theirs. The sense of Familia is strong in the Latin community and when one hurts one of the family, they have hurt all.

[mdbl]

25. Does this mean they are recovering from Stockholm Syndrome?