While Republican presidential candidates have historically earned as much as half of the Texas Latino vote, recent polling data shows that less than 20% of Texas Latinos said they would vote for President Trump in 2020.
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Pop-up stands offer a variety of Trump-inspired merchandise before a 2018 Trump rally in Houston, Texas.
Latinos make up 30% of the Texas electorate and are an increasingly vital voting bloc in the state.
Though Texas Hispanic voters are notoriously conservative compared to the rest of the nation’s voting Latinos, new research suggests that anti-immigrant rhetoric could be pushing them away from the GOP. That could make Texas more competitive for Democrats.
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