Latinos in California are mad at Trump. Their votes for Democrats' gerrymandering show it
Two years ago, Chiefer Danks of Rosedale, who works in agriculture, believed the former president would stabilize the economy and make life more affordable again as it was under his first administration. But more than a year into the second Trump administration, Danks isn’t pleased with how things have changed.
Like Danks, many California Latinos feel betrayed by the president’s campaign promises to promptly lower costs and keep the U.S. out of foreign military entanglements — both of which ring hollow as gasoline and grocery prices surge due primarily to Trump’s unpopular war in Iran.
They’re also frightened and outraged that Trump’s second administration has targeted Latino residents — both those here illegally and legally, even U.S. citizens — with violent immigration raids and deportations, separating families in the process.
“I thought he was going to make America great again,” said Danks, 31, as he stood waiting for his wife in El Mercado Latino, a hub for Latino-owned family businesses in the heavily Hispanic neighborhood of East Bakersfield. “He didn’t follow through on his words.”
https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/05/california-latino-voters-prop50-analysis/
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Hello, COVID? That would have messed up the economy no matter who was president and that wasn’t even Trump’s fault—but his incompetent clusterf**k of a response made it much worse. The Biden administration had a lot of work to do to repair the economy, and they were doing an admirable job.
But sure, let’s hand the reins back to the guy who screwed it up so badly the first time—it’s not like he could do any worse, right???
