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Feeling blamed and deceived: Latinos who voted for Trump rebel against the Republican Party

19 October 2026 at 11:14

Celia Salmerón had never voted for a Republican candidate. Not until 2024. Then, in the presidential election, she became one of many Latino voters who believed Donald Trump when he promised at every rally that he would deport all criminals and improve the economy. Two years after giving him her support, Salmerón — like so many other Hispanic voters — regrets her decision and says she will vote for the Democratic Party in the midterm elections on November 3. “For everything he’s doing to poor people, for separating parents from their children,” she says as she inserts hair extensions.

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Members of the Latino community cast their votes in Los Angeles.

David Jolly, the former Republican seeking to flip Florida for the Democrats: ‘We are seeing overenforcement and cruelty’

18 October 2026 at 05:00

David Jolly, the Democratic candidate for governor of Florida, does not need to be asked about U.S. President Donald Trump to distance himself from his former party and its leader.

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David Jolly in North Miami, Florida, on October 7.

No Kings movement calls marches to polling places this weekend to boost early voting

15 October 2026 at 12:00
No Kings coalition leaders at the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday.

The No Kings movement, which organized the largest protests against the government so far during Donald Trump’s second term, is taking its mobilization to the polls to promote early voting ahead of the midterms. The goal is to get as many voters as possible to cast ballots before November 3, the official day of the midterm elections, to counter abstention and problems that could arise at a time when, they say, the government is doing everything it can to restrict the right to vote.

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Latinos who turned away from Trump but distrust the Democrats: ‘I need to see deeds to believe again’

14 October 2026 at 11:46

The last two years have been, she says, “an emotional roller coaster.” She voted for Donald Trump for president, immigration authorities took away her husband, she was left alone to run the freight trucking business and care for their three children, and she watched her life plans slowly slip through her fingers. Now there are exactly 20 days left until the U.S. midterm elections and no campaign promise—neither from the Republicans nor the Democrats—has convinced Jessica Ruiz about the need to get up on November 3, drive through the streets of Miami and go to the polling place for Florida’s 28th District.

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Jessica Ruíz with her family in an undated photograph. The journalist Niover at the Univisión newsroom, in an undated photograph.

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Supporters of Donald Trump at a campaign event in the Bronx, New York, in May 2024.

Why Democrats think they can finally flip Texas in the Senate

13 October 2026 at 11:49

Despite years of political defeats in Texas, Democrats are hoping that the 2026 midterm elections will finally turn a Senate seat in the staunchly red state purple. James Talarico, a rising star within the party, is seen as one of the keys to achieving that new shade. For Republicans, he has become one of the biggest challenges in this closely contested campaign. So much so that a substantial share of the money being spent in the race has gone not toward promoting their controversial Senate candidate, Attorney General Ken Paxton, but toward attacking his opponent.

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Supporters of James Talarico in Austin, Texas, on March 3.
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