This summer has not been very kind to glasses-wears with all the humidity and rain.

It's going to end up being like that Jordan Peel meme.

Like the sweats just pouring down.

She's going to be like sweating

sweating bullets as we go.

It's because I'm Gailen Trook.

One of the most promising electoral trends for Republicans during the Trump era has been a shift amongst

Latino voters towards Republicans.

The 8 percentage point swing from Clinton in 2016 to Trump in 2020 represented the largest

shift of any racial or ethnic group in either direction though Biden still

won the group by roughly 30 percentage points overall.

But the erosion of support for Democrats didn't stop there.

In a poll of Latino voters in battleground states

from the research group Ekckies in May,

Biden was leading Trump amongst Latino voters

by only five percentage points.

And poll after poll showed Biden's biggest drops

in support since taking office to be amongst Latinos and young people.

Well, Biden is no longer in the race and so many of the trends that we've covered

from the past three and a half years may or may not be

relevant in this new dynamic a dynamic in which as of today Harris leads Trump by

almost three percentage points in our national polling average. So where do Latino voters stand today?

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