(RNS) — Though President Donald Trump’s gains with Hispanic Christians were a crucial part of his winning coalition in the 2024 election, those gains are showing signs of eroding. A year after the election, a majority of Latino Catholics and Protestants have mostly negative views on Trump’s job so far as president, especially when it comes to his immigration policies.
A Pew Research Center report on U.S. Latinos’ views on the second Trump administration, compiled from two separate polls conducted in September and October and released on Monday (Nov. 24), revealed that the majority of U.S. Latinos (70%) disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president (55% very strongly disapprove and 15% not strongly disapprove), about two-thirds disapprove of his approach to immigration (65%, combined very strongly and not strongly) and 6 in 10 say his economic policies have made economic conditions worse (61%).
The report found these perspectives heightened among Latino Catholics, three-quarters of whom disapprove of Trump’s job as president in his second term, and among religiously unaffiliated Latinos (76%). Latino Protestants are somewhat less likely to disapprove of the president’s work so far in 2025 (58% disapprove).
Pew also found that about a third of Latinos reported struggling to afford different daily necessities, and 68% said the situation of Latinos in the U.S. today has gotten worse, compared to 26% in 2021.
Among Latino Christians, disapproval of Trump’s immigratio …