CNNs chief data analyst Harry Enten argued that President Donald Trump has suffered a dramatic erosion of support among Hispanic men, a demographic that helped power his 2024 victory.
As reported by Mediaite, Enten revisited the immediate post-election narrative, when analysts marveled at how Trump put up a historically strong performance for a Republican candidate among Hispanic men. That bloc backed Trump over former Vice President Kamala Harris by 10 points in 2024, but Enten now claims the presidents net approval with Hispanic men has collapsed to -41.
Down he goes into the Gulf of Mexico! Enten exclaimed, underscoring what he described as a stunning reversal in polling. Minus-41 points in an average of polls this year. That is, [John Berman], by my math, a 51-point switcheroo against the president of the United States. All of that movement that you saw, that historic performance that President Trump had amongst Hispanic men, adios, amigos! Goodbye!
Enten attributed the shift primarily to perceptions of Trumps economic stewardship, even though many conservatives would argue that inflation, regulatory overreach, and persistent economic uncertainty are rooted in broader systemic and global factors. He noted that around the time of the election, Hispanic men preferred Trump over Harris on the economy by 10 points, yet current polling now shows Trump a whopping 49 points underwater on the same issue.
That is a 60-point move away from the President of the United States on the issue that got him re-elected to a second term, Enten said, crediting economic concerns for what he views as a wholesale reversal. It really helped swing Hispanic men into the Republican column to a historic degree; and all of that movement, all that hard work that Republicans made and did for the 2024 election, it all is just basically gone at this point. A huge swing back against the Republican President Donald John Trump.
Looking ahead, Enten forecast that these trends would have a massive impact on the midterm elections, pointing to polling that shows Hispanic men now favoring Democrats by 20 points. If youre a Republican running for re-election, or Republican running for Congress these midterm elections, and you think youre going to escape the wrath that President Trump has now amongst Hispanic men, you are sorely, sorely mistaken, he warned, adding, These are bonkers shifts, and Democrats have to really like these numbers.
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