Texas Republicans are banking on recent gains with Latino voters by redrawing their congressional maps to create four majority-Hispanic districts that seemingly favors GOP candidates.
The state GOP issued redrawn maps in an unusual mid-decade redistricting move at the urging of President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott, and the move copies a strategy Republicans are carrying out across the county after Latino voters shifted toward Trump last year.
But recent polling shows many voters — including in the demographic — aren't happy about many of his policies, reported Politico.
“Trump had the shortest honeymoon ever with these voters,” said Republican strategist Mike Madrid, who published a book last year on Latino voters. “It lasted a couple of months, but the day he started talking about tariffs and started rattling financial markets and everything that Latinos were voting for him on, which was overwhelming affordability and economic issues, they moved away from him just as rapidly as they moved away from Joe Biden for the exact same reasons.”