President Donald Trump’s support among Hispanics was always more fragile than he thought. Now his immigration and economic policies have all but obliterated the gains Republicans made with this group — gains they had started to count on for the midterms and beyond.
A new Pew Research Center Poll shows that Trump’s disapproval rating among Hispanics has soared to 70%, with 51% signaling "very strong disapproval." His job approval rating among this group has plummeted to 27%.
Sure, you can shrug off a single poll — even one from Pew, which is about as reputable as they come. But when I asked Mike Madrid, the longtime GOP strategist and author of The Latino Century, what he made of it, he didn’t hedge. "It’s a historic collapse," he told me — bluntly, emphatically, as if the political estab