How Republicans lost the Latino voters who elected Trump
Trump wooed Latino voters in 2024, then alienated them, with ICE tactics shifting Latino voters toward Democrats Tuesday night’s explosive rout of the Republican party was supercharged by the fury of Hispanic Americans who turned out in record numbers in key battlegrounds to protest the Trump administration ’s anti-immigrant assault on their communities. “Trump went against us,” said Benny Melendez from Weslaco, Texas. “He made us the target of ICE operations, so we decided to punish him by vot…


