cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53551835
In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.
Sept. 30, 2026
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Jessica Cantu Vuittonet, who runs a coffee shop in San Benito, Texas, cast her first ballot in 2024 — for Donald Trump. Two years later, after her brother was deported, she feels angry and betrayed.
Ariel Salinas, who owns a construction company in McAllen, Texas, can no longer reliably find laborers for his work crews. He blames the president’s immigration policies for his financial headaches.
In more than two dozen interviews across the region in recent weeks, Hispanic voters said they were furious over the president’s approach to immigration and the economy — the very problems they had counted on him to fix.
Only now? So all the racist shit in the beginning didn’t phase them, it was just the result of his “big ideas” which everyone knew wouldn’t that are finally showing results is what convined them? Lol.
They hear him always talking about “dangerous illegal immigrants” and think he’s talking about only the dangerous people here illegally. Somehow never catching on the to fact that he’s not describing a specific subset of immigrants, he’s describing how he sees immigrants as an entire group.