SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Latino men swung back hard; Latinas swung back harder. Most Latinas didn’t back President Donald Trump in 2024, but enough of them did to help usher him back into the White House. Early data from this week’s midterms suggests that many of those women came swinging back toward Democrats this cycle, taking on the role of deciders up and down the ballot, from Texas to Michigan.
In places like Florida, many of them appear to have simply sat out, giving Democrats some of the best margins they’ve seen in years. The swing didn’t come out of the blue — pun intended. Interviews with voters, as well as with experts who track Latinos, suggest that their shift to the left was fueled by intense disillusionment with Republicans, who didn’t fix the money problems that trouble them and spent the past two years rounding up their friends, neighbors and employees in immigration raids.
He’s not about the people — he’s more like a dictator,” said Lucero Loera, 34, who lives in Round Rock, Texas, and voted for Democrats in Tuesday’s election, helping lift Democrat James Talarico to victory and in turn Democratic control of the Senate. She also backed Gina Hinojosa, who defeated incumbent Gov. A post-election analysis of midterm voters by UnidosUS, a Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, found that 1 in 5 Latinas who backed Trump in 2024 decided to support Democrats instead, a higher share than Latino men, who also moved away from Republicans.
UnidosUS surveyed 3,000 Latino voters who cast ballots in the midterms. Latinas backed Democrats in U.S. House races at higher levels than Latino men.
Within that topline victory for Democrats is the fact that Latina candidates will take up a record number of seats in Congress. But it’s in races for the U.S. Senate where they may have made the most impact.
The UnidosUS analysis found a larger than 40-point advantage for Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate among Latinas — a mix of voters who shifted loyalties or stayed home. In a strip mall on the west side of U.S.
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