President Donald Trump’s popularity has cratered among Latino voters in Colorado’s highly competitive 8th Congressional District, where Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans is not shying away his ties to the White House as he seeks reelection.
Sixty-one percent of Latino voters in the district said they disapprove of the president while 37% said they approve of him, according to a new poll paid for by the Colorado Latino Policy Agenda.
The Agenda is an annual polling initiative backed by liberal-leaning Hispanic advocacy groups: Voces United de las Montañas and the Colorado Organization for Latino Opportunity and Reproductive Rights.
The poll was conducted by BSP Research, a Latino-owned firm that typically works for Democrats, from July 1 through Aug.11 among 1,606 Latino registered voters across Colorado. It included an oversample of 288 Latino voters in the 8th District, where about 40% of the population is Hispanic.
Despite its partisan clients, BSP Research is considered a reputable pollster that accurately measures voter opinions.
The entire poll had a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points while the 8th District results had 5.8 percentage point margin of error since it was a smaller sample of voters.
In the summer of 2025, 48% of Latino voters in the district said they disapproved of Trump. And 54% of Latino voters in the district told BSP Research that they approved of Trump’s job performance while 42% said they disapproved.
Asked again this summer, 70% said they disapproved of Trump’s job performance while 29% said they approved.
“A pretty significant shift.” Gabe Sanchez, a pollster for BSP Research, said during a news conference Tuesday. “When you see numbers jump over 10% in one year, that’s pretty statistically significant.”
In 2016, Trump won the district by 2 percentage points. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won by 5 points, according to an analysis by The Downballot. And in 2024, Trump again won by 2 points — a larger margin of victory than Evans’, who unseated Democratic incumbent Yadira Caraveo by less than a percentage point.
When it came to how voters view Evans, 34% said in this year’s Latino Policy Agenda poll that they disapproved of him while 42% said they approved of him and 24% said they didn’t know how they felt about him.
Latino voters in the 8th District said the top issues Congress and the president should address are the high cost of living and inflation; wages; and creating affordable and attainable housing. Forty-four percent said their financial situation had generally gotten worse in the past year and 69% said the country is generally going in the wrong direction.
Thirty-nine percent of Latino voters in the district said they blamed Trump for the cost of living in Colorado compared to 20% who said they blamed the state.
Despite Latino voters’ views of Trump and Evans, the election isn’t a lock among Latino voters for Evans’ challenger, Democratic state Rep. Manny Rutinel of Commerce City.
Just 51% of Latino voters in the district said they would vote for the Democratic candidate for Congress in November, while 29% said they would vote for the Republican. Four percent said they would back a third-party candidate and 15% said they were undecided.
Statewide 64% of Latino voters said they disapproved of Trump while 33% said they approved of him. A slightly larger share, 68%, said they disapproved of his job performance while 30% said they approved of it.
Here’s how Latino voters in other parts of the state said they viewed their congressional representative:
- 38% said they approved of U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, while 31% said they disapproved
- 35% said they approved of U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Lafayette, while 25% said they disapproved
- 39% said they approved of U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Grand Junction, while 32% said they disapproved
- 59% said they approved of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Windsor, while 31% said they disapproved
- 25% said they approved of U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colorado Springs, while 38% said they disapproved
- 50% said they approved of U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, D-Aurora, while 20% said they disapproved
- 40% said they approved of U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Lakewood, while 38% said they disapproved