{"id":18105,"date":"2025-06-08T18:29:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18105"},"modified":"2025-06-08T18:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:29:37","slug":"opinion-the-political-realignment-has-arrived-republicans-are-in-danger-of-blowing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18105","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Political Realignment Has Arrived. Republicans Are in Danger of Blowing It."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Pennsylvania\u2019s 600,000 Latino voters helped send Donald Trump to the White House for a second term, played a key role in electing a GOP majority in the Senate, and kept the House in Republican hands by flipping two districts, including the ancestrally Democratic U.S. House seat that includes Hazleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But these voters, after turning sharply right in 2024, are strongly disapproving of the president\u2019s performance several months into office, if recent polls are to be believed. April surveys showed cratering approval ratings among Hispanic voters who had shifted so dramatically, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2025\/04\/23\/evaluations-of-trump-job-approval-and-confidence-on-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just 27 percent<\/a>&nbsp;approving of Trump\u2019s job performance, according to the Pew Research Center. The&nbsp;<em>New York Times\/Siena College&nbsp;<\/em>poll&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/04\/25\/us\/elections\/times-siena-poll-crosstabs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">echoed these findings<\/a>&nbsp;several weeks later, with just 26 percent of Hispanic voters approving of Trump\u2019s tenure.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/06\/03\/republican-latino-pennsylvania-realignment-00381336\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/06\/03\/republican-latino-pennsylvania-realignment-00381336<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pennsylvania\u2019s 600,000 Latino voters helped send Donald Trump to the White House for a second term, played a key role in electing a GOP majority in the Senate, and kept the House in Republican hands by flipping two districts, including the ancestrally Democratic U.S. House seat that includes Hazleton.<\/p>\n<p>But these voters, after turning sharply right in 2024, are strongly disapproving of the president\u2019s performance several months into office, if recent polls are to be believed. April surveys showed cratering approval ratings among Hispanic voters who had shifted so dramatically, with just 27 percent approving of Trump\u2019s job performance, according to the Pew Research Center. The New York Times\/Siena College poll echoed these findings several weeks later, with just 26 percent of Hispanic voters approving of Trump\u2019s tenure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/06\/03\/republican-latino-pennsylvania-realignment-00381336<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-18105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18106,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105\/revisions\/18106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}