The Daily Signal - President Trump’s Most Loyal Supporters: The Hispanic Community | Victor Davis Hanson

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

After 100 days in office, how popular is President Donald Trump?   “47% of likely U.S. voters either strongly or somewhat approve of President Trump,” according to a poll conducted by Rassmussen Reports last month.    The biggest surprise? Over a majority of Hispanic voters, 58%, approve of President Trump, which is greater than his support amongst white (47%) and black (41%) voters.   Democrats told us that closing the border, and deporting illegal aliens, like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deeply unpopular within the Hispanic community and would sink Trump’s favorability.    But, it actually has the opposite effect, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1…     👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/victordavishanson7273…     👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com    The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk. Business. At the end of Donald Trump's first hundred days, there were a number of polls that came out. Most of them were liberal and most of them were negative. One of the daily Rasmussen polls, they had an astonishing figure. They broke down Donald Trump's support by ethnic category. There were 39% of black Americans that expressed support for Donald Trump. That's an astonishing number.

Given 95% of the news coverage, according to the Media Research Center, has been negative. And yet here is a traditional Democratic constrict. were four out of ten people like what's been going on. But even more astonishing is the Hispanic community. Why would that be? Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. At the end of Donald Trump's first hundred days, there were a number of polls that came out. Most of them were liberal and most of them were negative.

And as we mentioned and have mentioned in the past, some of them, who have a much more reliable history, such as the Rasmussen poll, the Insider Advantage poll, the Troufalgar poll, they all had Donald Trump at the end of 100 days with either roughly 50-50 approval ratings or even slightly above that, 48, 46, 50-49. But my point is, in one of the daily Rasmussen polls, they had an astonishing figure that they broke down Donald Trump's support by ethnic category. And there were 39% of black Americans that expressed support for Donald Trump. That's an astonishing number, given that 95% of the news coverage, according to the Media Research Center, has been negative. And yet here is a traditional

democratic constituency where four out of 10 people like what's been going on. But even more astonishing the ethnic constituency that expressed the highest approval of Donald Trump's first hundred days was the Hispanic community. In fact, far above the so-called white community. How can that be possible? The Democratic Party had told us that closing the border and stopping the illegal entry of 10 to 12 million illegal aliens during the Biden administration, that was very deeply unpopular to the Hispanic community. And then the deportations of illegal aliens like Obrego Garcia, for example, or Mr. Flores-Ruez that was in Judge Dugan's courtroom whom she tried to hide. He was the assater of three people, including women. This was supposed to be

deeply unpopular. But it actually has the opposite effect. And why would that be? The reason is that when 12 million people come in illegally and they gravitate to certain constituencies or enclaves, they usually feel more at home with fellow Spanish-speaking Americans. And where is that? That is along the Rio Grande Valley. That is in Texas. That is in parts of New Mexico. That is in the San Joaquin Valley.

What am I getting at? What I'm getting at is that a group of elites in the Biden administration for particular political purposes, and I'll be frank here, I think they did want people to come in both to serve as future constituents under the lax rules and protocols of early and mail-in voting and also to grow the government and have more constituencies on welfare. But in any case, the price, the cost, the toll fell most heavily on Hispanic communities. These were the ones that are trying to get competitive advanced placement programs in their schools, and suddenly they have English as a second language programs again.

They were the ones that at dialysis clinics, that emergency rooms that were swarmed with people who had some cases never been to a doctor. And so they bore the greatest brunt of it. They were in cities where the Biden administration flew people in at night from Mexico and then dispersed them in Hispanic communities. And so they were very angry. And why would so-called white people poll much more negatively against Trump's first 100 days in Hispanics? It's because that the white elite had created an agenda under the Biden and Obama administration that was elitist.

By that, I mean, let's face it, Bernie Sanders had to take out the word millionaires from his usual castigation of millionaires and billionaires. And it wasn't just because he's a millionaire now, is that that is the trademark of the professional bicultural classes. And they're interested in issues that are not existential. They're at least not everyday existential. By that I mean global warming, the Green New Deal, transgendered men and women's sports, international organizations, the UN. But they're not interested in what the Hispanic working classes are interested.

in. And that's affordable gasoline, affordable power bills, good paying jobs, schools that allow their children to be competitively educated, safety in their neighborhoods. And the idea that they should have some natural antipathy for illegal aliens just because they share the same language and maybe ethnic background. They don't. They're just like anybody else that's trying to make a living and has been ignored and shun by the grandees of the Democratic Party. And so they're expressing support for an administration that is trying to get affordable energy prices, that is damning the high rise in crime, that is seeking to close the border and secure it, that is calling a county elite universities that gouges the federal government. All of that appeals to people who have to work with

their muscles. And many of the Hispanic community, their contractors, their small business, people, many of them are professionals, but they have a more realistic, as all immigrant communities do, a real realistic appraisal, what's important and what's peripheral. And right now, the Democratic Party is peripheral to the Hispanic community in general. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hansson for The Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.