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Newsweek
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Newsweek
Trump's Approval Rating With Hispanics Surges, New Poll Shows
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. President Donald Trump's approval rating with Hispanics is surging, a new poll from The Economist and YouGov shows Tuesday. Why It Matters Hispanic voters have long served as a crucial and growing demographic in national elections, traditionally supporting Democratic candidates. According to Pew Research Center, 61 percent of Hispanic voters supported former President Joe Biden in 2020. The group has historically favored Democratic candidates, with 71 percent backing Barack Obama in 2012 and 66 percent supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to Pew Research Center, citing exit polls. However, in the 2024 election, the Democratic margin narrowed significantly: 51 percent supported Democrat Kamala Harris, while 48 percent supported Donald Trump, marking a historic high for a Republican candidate in modern times, Pew Research Center reports. When Trump returned to the White House in January, he coasted in with high approval figures. But the president saw his numbers dip after months marked by economic strife and criticism over other policies like the president's handling of immigration and his recently passed tax bill. The up-and-down nature of approval polls can paint a picture of the landscape heading into the 2026 elections, where Democrats hope to regain control of the House and the Senate. What To Know In the poll, the president's approval rating with Hispanics is 35 percent. The survey was conducted from July 11 to July 14 among 1680 U.S. adult citizens. The poll's margin of error is 3.4 percent. Trump's overall approval rating in the survey is 41 percent versus a 55 percent disapproval rating. The week prior, the president's approval rating with Hispanics was 26 percent, a difference of 9 percent compared to Tuesday's number. That poll was taken from July 4 to July 7 among 1528 U.S. adult citizens. The margin of error was 4 percent. Trump's overall approval rating in the survey is 42 percent versus a 53 percent disapproval rating. The president's approval rating with Hispanics in June and July peaked at 38 percent in a poll taken from May 30 to June 2. Week over week, Trump's approval rating with men shrank 5 percent, and grew 3 percent with women and millennials. President Donald Trump can be seen answering questions from reporters while meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office at the White House on July 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by... President Donald Trump can be seen answering questions from reporters while meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office at the White House on July 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by) More What People Are Saying Columbia University Political Science Professor Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek via email Tuesday: "If this is larger increase than for other groups it is hard to evaluate. Approval ratings increase when there is more good news than bad news reported about presidents. I can only speculate that this increase was a cumulative effect of the good news about Iran bombing of nuclear facilities. This was the best news that Trump has received of late; next might be the last jobs report." What Happens Next As the 2026 midterms near, both parties are likely to intensify their outreach to Hispanic voters—a demographic whose support may prove decisive in key battleground districts. Ongoing polling will clarify whether Trump's uptick in Hispanic approval sustains or reverses, especially if economic and immigration concerns persist among this group.
Buzz Feed
9 hours ago
- Politics
- Buzz Feed
Key Issue Turning Americans Against Trump, CNN Data Shows
CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten on Monday used just one word to sum up Americans' souring views on Donald Trump's handling of immigration. 'Oof!' said Enten in a segment with CNN's Kate Bolduan. Enten pointed to five separate polls from mid to late June showing the president's net approval rating (percent approval minus percent disapproval) on immigration ranging from -7 (Fox) to -27 (Gallup). He described the range of Trump's net approval ratings as 'bad to just downright terrible.' 'The American people have turned against President Donald Trump on what was his best issue,' Enten said. The segment comes just over a month after Enten spotted how Trump's net approval rating on immigration had shot 'up like a rocket' when comparing polling from early June to data from June 2017. The president's aggressive immigration policies have intensified over the course of his second term, with massive raids of legal cannabis farms in California last week — one of which saw a worker fall from a roof, later dying from his injuries, as hundreds of others were arrested. Enten, when asked if there are signs that the polling trend is affecting Trump's overall net approval rating, turned to how the president's net approval rating with Hispanics dropped by double digits over the past few months. In February, Trump was doing 'pretty gosh darn good for a Republican' as his net approval rating with Hispanics sat at -2, per polling from CBS News/YouGov. By June, less than a year after his 'historic performance' with Hispanic voters in the fall, that figure fell to -26, per Enten. 'Now he's basically back where he was during his first term, which is quite a low approval rating, one which has brought his overall approval rating down amongst the entire electorate,' Enten explained. The data analyst went on to point to how Immigration and Customs Enforcement's net approval rating went from averaging 0 during Trump's first term to reaching -17 last month. He added that the immigration crackdowns haven't just brought Trump down, but they've brought ICE 'down with him.'
Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Milwaukee Community Land Trust celebrates the completion of five newly renovated homes
A Milwaukee couple is celebrating becoming homeowners, with help from the Milwaukee Community Land Trust. Organization leaders and city officials made remarks at the new home of Jeanette Torres and Jovan Jiron -- one of five home renovations recently completed by MCLT -- during a press event on July 14. "It's like a fresh start for us," Torres told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The couple lived in a rental property before it was sold without any warning, Torres said at the event. For the last two years, the pair and their three children lived at Torres' family home. Through a deal with MCLT, their new home is in Milwaukee's Clarke Square neighborhood, and it cost them $90,000. Torres says that she is thankful to live in a community she loves. As a child, she would frequently walk along Mitchell Street with her grandmother. 'It's just very nostalgic to me to be in this community,' Torres said. Torres is a community organizer at Southside Organizing Center. Jiron, her husband, works with the Riverworks Development Corporation. Owning a home in the neighborhood is ideal for work and raising her family, Torres said. MCLT's goal is to increase homeownership among Black and Hispanic families in Milwaukee. The group aims to make homes affordable through a community land trust model. The model allows low-income residents to buy their home at an affordable price. If they choose to sell their home, it must be to another eligible family at a price they can afford. Lamont Davis, MCLT's executive director, said he strongly thinks that the family will be 'poised for success' because their mortgage is significantly lower than the rent they paid previously. The organization partnered with groups like One 5 Olive, Northwestern Mutual, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and many more to bring the project to fruition. Renovations for the house cost about $296,000. Torres and Jiron's home is one of five properties that the organization just finished renovating, said Davis. They have accepted offers on all those units. 'It's been a great, joyous month of June just to see so many people getting into their forever homes,' said Davis. The process of getting Torres and Jiron moved into their new home took about 18 months. Work began in November 2022, but due to some delays, they started 'in earnest' during the spring of 2023, Davis said. 'It was worth the wait,' Torres said. The house was once neglected, vacant, then city-owned, said city development commissioner Lafayette Crump at the press event. The five properties MCLT renovated were added through Homes MKE – that initiative also provided ARPA fund to help restore those properties. 'Affordable housing is more than just walls and roofs. It's about dignity,' said Mayor Cavalier Johnson during the press event. MCLT is committed to working with diverse developers and partners to continue growing across Milwaukee County, Davis said. He thinks they can renovate between six and 10 units a year moving forward. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: MCLT completes renovations for five Milwaukee homes Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
The Herald Scotland
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Anti-woke stormtroopers are gunning for Superman. The world's gone mad
If you tootle over to the Reddit website, where folk ask questions about every subject under the sun, you'll find a page called "What's the most ridiculous thing you've ever seen described as 'woke'?" It's one long point-and-laugh at the puce-faced puffins who evacuate into their underpants over anything which doesn't accord with their 1950s Pathé News version of reality. Here are some examples: the novel Frankenstein was called woke by the tabloids because the monster is portrayed as a "misunderstood victim"'. Spoiler alert: the monster is misunderstood. That's Mary Shelley's point. Or there's the poster for the film of the computer game Legend of Zelda. It's woke as it features a girl. Spoiler alert: Zelda is a girl. Then there's Rage Against the Machine. Their lyrics are woke, apparently. Spoiler alert: it's Rage Against the Machine. Read more by Neil Mackay There's the Welsh person who was called woke for speaking Welsh … in Wales. The computer game Far Cry 6 is woke as it features Hispanic women. Have you guessed yet that it's set on a Caribbean island…? A documentary about Tyrannosaurus Rex was woke as the dinosaurs didn't kill enough. Lego is woke. Afros – woke. Allotments – woke. Jam-making – woke. Disney – woke. I mean, it's Disney, what do they want from the people who brought us Bambi and Dumbo? The movies of Leni Riefenstahl? On it goes. A stream of absolute, sweaty-eyed, frothy-lipped absurdity. Being anti-woke has become a joke. Look, there's been plenty of absolute blazing stupidity from the so-called world of woke. We saw over-reach and insanity at the height of MeToo and Black Lives Matter. We've seen bad behaviour, including threats, from trans rights campaigners. The left in general has undoubtedly engaged in silencing and cancel culture. But holy moly, the right-wing over-reaches daily. Misogyny and racism drip from the anti-woke mob. The bullying and abuse from the anti-trans brigade is simply mass dehumanisation. The right is currently – not in general but as a matter of policy – engaged in wholesale silencing and cancel culture. For pity's sake, someone was charged under terrorism laws in Glasgow this weekend for wearing a t-shirt reading "Palestine Action". I repeat: for wearing a t-shirt. The latest anti-woke crusade encapsulates the pitiful madness of the right perfectly. Superman has gone woke, seemingly. Cue right-wing commentators hurling themselves from skyscrapers. It began when Dean Cain, who played Superman on telly in the 1990s, thought he'd seek some relevance. Trump-supporting Cain didn't like an interview given by James Gunn, the director of the new Superman movie. Gunn said that Superman 'is the story of America'. It features an 'immigrant', and is about 'basic human kindness … something we have lost'. Cain wailed: 'How woke is Hollywood going to make this character?' Well, sorry Dean, but Superman is an immigrant. Here's a clue: he's a refugee from planet Krypton. The opening pages of the first Superman comic in 1938 describes the hero thus: 'Superman! Champion of the Oppressed, the physical marvel who has sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need!' Some may call this woke, others may just call it "Superman being Superman" or "acting nice, like your mum told you". Cain was on a roll, though, envisioning vistas of woke horror opening up before his eyes. 'How much is Disney going to change their Snow White?' he lamented. Mate, Snow White hangs around with seven dwarves, I don't think they could make her more woke if they tried. The anti-woke mob holler go woke and go broke. When I hear that I picture a bull defecating in a field, because the reverse is true. Who single-handedly trashed every brand he owned with his obsessive, endless, 3am anti-woke squawking? Elon "Hammer of the Woke Mind Virus" Musk. The anti-woke cult is just an update on the witch-hunt. Devotionals sound like Senator McCarthy at the height of his paranoid unravelling over communists in America. Instead of Reds under the Bed, anti-woke stormtroopers see the woke creeping from every cranny in culture. They've lost their very tiny, very over-heated minds. It would be funny if so many people in power didn't tag along behind as they think that's how to win approval from the English tabloids. One recently ran an article about how sandwiches were woke. GenZ is apparently 'waging war on our sandwiches', and 'ditching English classics like ham and mustard in favour of fancy woke fillings'. Yes, readers, fancy woke fillings! Is this why my grandfather fought the Nazis, so we could eat falafel!? A quick perusal of the British media of late will show you that the new Pope is woke; architecture is woke; new banknotes are woke; as are Jaguar cars. The woke are everywhere. Can't you feel their eyes boring into you? Don't you hear them whispering about you? They're plotting to ban patriotic fish and chips, they're going to make our children read The Colour Purple everyday. Soon we'll be forced to dye our hair pink and listen to Kneecap. Elon Hammer of the Woke Mind Virus Musk. (Image: PA) The next James Bond will be trans! Doctor Who will be disabled! Won't someone think of the children! The anti-woke league manages to be both sad, embarrassing and nasty simultaneously. It's a clubhouse for people who hate kindness. To the anti-woke, anything which doesn't conform to their rigid, tyrannical and petty worldview must be smashed. Such narcissism is breath-taking. By all means defend old-fashioned, conservative values. But have some proportion and perspective, lest you fall victim to the law of diminishing returns. If you scream about woke bogeymen every five minutes, eventually folk just switch off. Who wants to listen to the same repetitive drivel about ideological phantoms from minds both fevered and dull? When we see the symptoms of the anti-woke mind virus today, the rest of us just snigger. You're not a culture warrior, you're a joke. Neil Mackay is The Herald's Writer at Large. He's a multi-award-winning investigative journalist, author of both fiction and non-fiction, and a filmmaker and broadcaster. He specialises in intelligence, security, crime, social affairs, cultural commentary, and foreign and domestic politics
NBC News
17 hours ago
- Politics
- NBC News
Former Jan. 6 committee lawyer launches Democratic bid for Congress in a Florida district Trump won
A former lawyer for the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot announced Tuesday that he is running for Congress in Florida as a Democrat, challenging Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar. Robin Peguero, 39, said in an interview ahead of his announcement that he is running because Salazar has not 'stood up' to President Donald Trump on issues like his deportation program and sweeping tax and spending cuts law. 'It's been six months into this administration, and Congresswoman Salazar has not stood up to the president in any meaningful way,' Peguero said. Peguero was a homicide prosecutor in Miami from 2014 until September 2021, when he took a job on the Jan. 6 committee as an investigative counsel. He continued in that position until the committee dissolved in 2021, after which he became chief of staff for Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., until January 2024. He has taught law in Miami since. Salazar has represented Florida's 27th Congressional District, which encompasses most of Miami and its southern suburbs, since 2021. The predominantly Hispanic district has shifted toward Republicans in recent years, as Trump won the district by 15 percentage points in 2024 after he carried it by less than half a percentage point in 2020. Peguero said his top priority is affordability, which he said includes issues like health care, grocery costs and gas prices. 'It is the number one role of government, is again, to make sure that everybody has the opportunity for the American dream,' he said. Peguero said he leaned on his experience as a prosecutor in Miami when he became investigative counsel for the Jan 6. committee. 'That was me wanting to take what I had learned as a prosecutor and present evidence of what was an awful mark in our country's history, the first non-peaceful transfer of power in our history, to uncover evidence to present to the American people so that they might decide what to do with it and how we might avoid it from ever happening again,' Peguero said. Some 30-plus miles outside of Salazar's district lies 'Alligator Alcatraz,' the new immigration detention center in the Everglades that Peguero said is a 'PR gimmick.' He said he supports deporting violent criminals, but criticized the Trump administration for deporting 'good, hard-working' people who have been in the U.S. for a long time. 'They didn't vote for mass deportations without due process. They voted for border security and for the deportation of violent criminals and a government that's smart enough to be able to tell the difference between who ought to be deported and who should not,' Peguero said. 'People are absolutely having regrets over their votes in the past, and the truth is we just got to move forward,' he said. Salazar's seat is one of 35 that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has announced as targets, as House Democrats aim to flip the chamber next year, though the expansive list includes some districts that are heavily Republican at this point. Peguero joins former Key Biscayne mayor and 2024 candidate Mike Davey, entrepreneur Richard Lamondin and accountant Alexander Fornino in the Democratic field.
