Many Latinos Who Backed Trump Say They Won't Support Republicans Next Time
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
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This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, politics correspondent Ashley Lopez and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:16.0 | Hi, this is Cheryl calling from the Pasadentand Airport. I'm about to head home to Boston. |
| 0:21.4 | Yesterday, my son Sam, along with his boatmates, Will, Ryan and Lyle, won gold at the |
| 0:27.2 | under-23 World Rowing Championships the first time the United States has meddled in this |
| 0:32.5 | boat category. |
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| 0:36.8 | 106 p.m. on Wednesday, August 27, 2025. |
| 0:40.5 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be naming of pride. |
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| 0:49.6 | Parents of those kinds of athletes deserve a lot of credit because they put a lot of time on the line around the world. That's incredible. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tifa Shiverum. I cover the White House. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. All right. So today on the show, we're talking about Latino voters. They were a |
| 1:11.4 | significant part of the coalition that helped elect President Trump in 2024, but recent polling |
| 1:16.6 | shows Trump and the Republican Party losing some of that support. So Ashley, tell us more about |
| 1:22.6 | what these polls are showing. Right. So there's a Latino polling company called Echis, |
| 1:27.3 | as well as another group called Somos |
| 1:29.2 | Watantes, that have done some polling recently about how Latinos are feeling, you know, several |
| 1:33.7 | months now into the Trump administration. And the big takeaway from their polling, there's one that was |
| 1:38.8 | released in July that I thought was interesting, that shows that fewer Latinos overall are supporting Trump |
| 1:42.9 | than were just a few months before that. And in fact, a third of Latinos who voted for President Trump last |
| 1:48.0 | November say they do not plan to vote for Republicans next year. Eki's also released a poll about a |
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