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The New Yorker seems to think that President Donald Trump will again be running for re-election in 2028. Perhaps they take the “TRUMP 2028” seriously since Jack Herrera wrote a piece in their Tuesday issue that makes that assumption in “Democratic Schadenfreude and the Latino Vote,” with the subtitle of “Trump’s once strong approval rating among Latinos has collapsed, but Democrats can’t count on their support.”

Herrera bases his sweeping conclusion of a “collapse” of Latino support for Trump on a total of two polls with an incredibly poor track record on this topic. This led Herrera to engage in a high level of liberal Hopium as you can see in his story based on dubious sources:

After close to half of Latino voters chose Donald Trump in 2024, Democrats reacted like someone catching their grandpa giving money to a chatbot. “A lot of folks are asking on the Democratic side, ‘Why would they do this to themselves?’ ” the CNN anchor Jim Acosta said. He asked whether Latinos had “just had the wool pulled over their eyes.” Online, the reaction got ugly. Some posters (who claimed to be Kamala Harris voters) shared the tip-line number for ICE, encouraging their followers to call and report undocumented family members of Latinos who had voted for Trump. Those posts represented an angry fringe; however, even among levelheaded Democrats, I heard some species of vindictiveness. They understood why Latinos, buffeted by years of inflation and rising housing costs, had rejected Joe Biden. But they felt these voters would—and should—pay for supporting Trump.