Donald Trump approval rating with Hispanics is highest since taking office

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56% : Previous editions of the Economist/YouGov poll have shown Trump with a 40 percent approval rating among Hispanics over the past three weeks, while the first poll since his return to the White House, taken in late January, showed him with 42 percent approval.
54% : Despite frequently facing criticism for hard-line immigration policies that target migrants from countries in Latin America, Trump has recently made significant gains in favorability and approval among Hispanic Americans.
54% : The survey shows Trump with an overall approval rating of 48 percent and a disapproval rating of 46 percent.
46% : Samuel Negron, Republican Pennsylvania state constable, explaining Hispanic voters backing Trump in 2024 to the BBC: "It's simple, really.
43% : While the bulk of the Hispanic voters, who traditionally lean Democratic, voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in last year's election, Trump increased his share of the Hispanic vote from 16 percent in 2016 to 42 percent in 2024, according to The Conversation.
37% : A poll released by The Economist/YouGov on Wednesday shows that 45 percent of Hispanic Americans approve "of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as President," while a slim 52 percent majority disapprove.
33% : The president fared slightly worse in the polls in terms of favorability, with 43 percent of Hispanics saying in the latest edition that they had a "favorable opinion" of Trump regardless of whether they approved of his job performance.
21% : Her focus is on reporting national politics, where she has covered the 2020 and 2022 elections, the impeachments of Donald Trump and multiple State of the Union addresses.

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