Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has warned Donald Trump he could lose the Hispanic vote that helped sweep him to victory last year if his administration continues its frenzied nationwide deportation drive.
“Some of them are misreading the aggressive tactics of ICE and taking it on the whole Hispanic community,” he told Fox & Friends viewers. “They feel as though they’ve been too broadly targeted. And that’s why the president’s numbers are coming down with Hispanics.”
Kilmeade warned that with midterms coming up next November, a drop in support among that particular, historically Democratic-leaning demographic doesn’t bode well for MAGA.
“Things aren’t going to go good for anybody’s mission on the Republican side if they lose the Hispanic vote or nullify, negate some of the gains that they’ve worked so hard to make,” he said.
Amid the Trump administration’s immigration raids, MAGA officials have repeatedly touted claims that they are going after “the worst of the worst” criminal offenders present in the country illegally.
Critics have hit back by pointing out that the overwhelming majority of those detained, by some measures as high as 70 percent, have precisely zero criminal background.
As the largest immigrant demographic in the United States, the Hispanic community has overwhelmingly proven a target of ICE raids over the past several months.
Analysts note the same community also played a pivotal role in several swing states last November, helping bolster Republican gains in places previously seen as Democratic strongholds.
While Kilmeade’s remarks might signal a rare moment of concern from within Trump’s media orbit that MAGA may be jeopardizing a key support base, it nevertheless speaks to wider Republican anxiety ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
A national survey from Marquette Law School found that 49 percent of registered voters say they’d vote for a Democrat in the 2026 congressional elections, compared with 44 percent who say they’d vote Republican.
Latest polling CNN similarly shows Democrats leading on the generic 2026 congressional ballot by 47 to 42 percent—and finds Democratic voters are considerably more motivated than Republican voters.
