Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Gets Nightmare News as Top Supporters Abandon Him

Episode Date: March 21, 2026

Trump is hemorrhaging support from all the voter groups he needs to win the midterms, first among them the Hispanic Catholic Vote, as Catholic leaders from Pope Leo on down to American Archbishops lead their parishioners against Trump’s attacks on affordability and immigrants. Popok takes a look at the cratering of Trump’s coalition, including the independent, women, young voters, and black voters, and why there may be no path at all to victory in November, given the historically dismal poll numbers and the reasons for them. 120Life: Go to https://120Life.com and use my code LEGALAF for 20% off Subscribe:  @LegalAFMTN  Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is not hyperbole. Every major voting demographic led by the Hispanic Catholic vote has turned against Donald Trump. It's the same coalition that he built to ride into office, returned to office against Kamala Harris. They are now based on recent polling and durable polling, meaning month after month after month, are running screaming from Donald Trump, his policies that destroy affordability in America,

his policies of depraved immigration rules and law, and led by the American Hispanic Catholics, and ultimately led by the leadership of the Catholic Church from Pope Leo, the first American Pope all the way down to the American bishops, all of the groups that Donald Trump needs at midterm in order to continue his MAGA policies have abandoned him. The bottom has fallen out. I'm here to cover it.

I'm Michael Popok. You're on the Midas Touch Network. Take a moment. Come over to Legal AF YouTube channel. Help us grow that pro-democracy channel. hit the subscribe button there as well. Let me focus on the five different groups or so that I believe are the drivers for the midterms. The Latin vote, the Latin, Hispanic, Catholic vote, the independent vote, the women vote,

the under 30 vote and the black vote. Donald Trump overperformed versus the historical averages in each one of those. groups, especially the Hispanic Catholic vote. But now we've got a complete split. It's because the Hispanic Catholics care more about affordability and immigration policy than the non-Hispanic Catholics do. Non-Hispanic Catholics side primarily with white evangelical Christians, and they side with Donald Trump, but not the Hispanic voter. Whereas Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House calls it, we've got a hiccup problem. Yeah, it's a hiccup problem with Hispanic voters because of the migration policies.

Yes, when you put children in jail, when you export people and put them without due process in other countries, when you put them into torture prisons, when you have them die at the hands of ice, when you have them violated, when you deport college, honor college students, it's going to have an impact on the Hispanic Catholic vote. It starts with the leadership of the Catholic Church. Now, I'm not here to comment on all the other problems in organized religion or certainly within the Catholic Church. I'm not here to talk about child abuse in the Catholic Church or whether what they're doing is too little, too later, enough, or any of that.

But I'm just talking about right now whether they are leading from the front against the Trump administration and immigration policy or they're not leading at all. And they are leading from the front. Now, people, I've got on record when Pope Leo was elected, I do not think it was a coincidence that the first American Pope, a Franciscan Pope from America, from Chicago,

was chosen in the second term of Donald Trump. I think that was a message from the Catholic Church, not just to continue the good works of Pope Francis, but to oppose the lawlessness, the depravity, the immorality of Donald Trump and his policies. I think Trump begat, if you will, Pope Leo. And Pope Leo, along with American archbishops, have been leading, including issuing the archbishops,

issuing for the first time a decade, a special message to their flock, to their parishioners against the Trump administration immigration policies. And what's the result been? Well, back in 2024, when it was Kamala Harris, as the opponent. Donald Trump improved by more than 12 points with the Hispanic Catholic vote, and he got 48% of that vote, almost splitting it down the middle with the Democrats. Democrats had reliably, almost had religiously, had reliably gotten 65 to 70% of the Catholic and Hispanic

vote. But Donald Trump got 12 more points there, and now the new polling is at and the unfavorability rating for Donald Trump among Hispanic Catholics is at 62%. 62% of Hispanic Catholics can't stand the Trump administration. He's only got a 28% favorable rating. 70% of them deplore his ICE policies. 70% of them deplore his migration policies. He's effectively lost all of the 12-point upswing that he obtained during the last election.

We've seen this play out in a couple of states that have large Hispanic populations, although the Hispanic vote and the Hispanic Catholic vote, if it bans together and votes against Donald Trump and MAGA, can move the needle in many, many jurisdictions. Not just California, Texas, and New York, in Georgia, too, in places that are purple. But this is why the Republican, MAGA, are freaking out because of what happened last month in Texas in Tarrant County, a county that Donald Trump won by 17 points. You don't get any redder than that against Kamala Harris.

Well, Taylor Reddit is now a state senator, a Democrat from Tarrant County. He won by 14 points. That's a 31 point swing. for a Democrat in a special election in Ruby Red MAGA country of Texas. This is something I wish more people talked about sooner, and it runs in my family. High blood pressure. It doesn't always feel urgent, but it affects half of all adults, and it's the number one risk factor for mortality.

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We'll move on to that in a moment. That's Texas. In more than 283 races since the start of the Trump administration 16 months ago, the Democrats have overperformed me. They did better and much better than Kamala Harris in 90% of those districts. They are 28 and 0 in flipping Republican House and State Senate seats, 28 and 0. one Republican has flipped a Democrat seat during that same time period. They're winning 21% of, in 21% of the time, they're able to flip the seat.

Now let's look at Florida, my adopted home state. Let's look at the city of Miami back in the special election or the election. You've got Eileen Higgins, non-Hispanic woman. There hasn't been a Democrat that's won. city of Miami mayoral race in more than 30 years, let alone a non-Hispanic, let alone a Democrat. Okay? So she runs in a district where Trump won Florida by 10 points over Kamala Harris. He won Miami-Dade County where the city of Miami resides by 12 points.

He tied Kamala Harris in the city, effectively a tie in the city. And what happened with Eileen Higgins? She won by 19 points over a Trump-picked endorsed candidate in the city where his Miami, in the city of Miami, where his libraries, presidential library is going to be, a candidate who was also endorsed by Governor DeSantis, Eileen Higgins won by 19 points. That's a 29-point swing against the state.

That's a 31-point swing against the county and a 19-point swing against the 10. tie between Trump and Kamala Harris in the city of Miami. This is what's freaking out the Republicans. But that's not all. Let's look at the overall Hispanic vote is only Trump has about a 38% approval rating. With independents, he has a 30% approval rating. And again, this is the group of voters that Donald Trump can't win without, especially at midterm. Under 30, especially men or boys under 30, 63% disagree with the Trump administration. He's got a 37% approval rating for those under 30 and 25% at least want their vote back.

Women. He only has a 36% approval rating with women. Now let's look at the black vote. Black vote, Donald Trump, did something that was extraordinary against Kabbala Harris, of all people. He picked up 15% of the black vote. Normally, it's in single digits for a Republican. But he doubled almost what he had done in 2020. Now, only 20% of the black vote is in favor of Donald Trump, more than 80%.

have rejected him. Black vote, 80% unfavorable. Women, 64%. Under 30 voter, 63%. Independence, 70% reject Donald Trump. Hispanic vote. Hispanic vote. And I just went through the Hispanic Catholic vote. If he can't get these groups back in the next seven months or so, he's doomed. We think he's doomed already. but I wanted to go over with you. We spent a considerable amount of time on Midas Touch on legal A.F. Without blowing, smoke or sunshine, giving you the straight scoop. So you have the information that you need in order to make the decisions, in order to debate around the kitchen table and social media,

in order to motivate you and others to vote. But occasionally, we've got to take the plane up 5,000 feet, look back down and say, it has been successful. our platforming, our opposition to Donald Trump, our calling out each and every one of his deprived, immoral, illegal conduct or behavior or those of his administration is working. It's having a deleterious impact on the American voter. And his time is up. Time is up.

We just have to get to the voting. There's a pent-up demand for voting, I believe, that's going to. to overwhelm the Republican Party and return checks and balances to our system by giving the Democrats, the House, and the Senate in just about seven and a half months. So I'll be there for it with you, right here every step of the way. You're on the Midas Dutch Network. You're on Legal AF. On Legal AF, no, outside investors. Take a moment. Hit the free subscribe button as we continue to grow our pro-democracy channel. Until my next report, this is Michael Popock. Can't get your fill of legal a.F. Me neither. That's why we formed the legal A.F. Substack. Every time we

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