ELIZABETH, New Jersey — When Donald Trump won the presidency last November, he did so with unprecedented levels of new support from Latino voters across the country. In big cities, towns, and suburbs around the country, these voters — both new, previously disengaged voters and former Democrats disillusioned with the status quo — flocked to Trump and Republican candidates. The result: about an 11-point improvement from Trump’s 2020 performance, which itself was already a major achievement compared to 2016.

It was a great realignment that many Republicans had been predicting, and it had finally arrived. But whether it would last was an open question. A more popular Trump could either wield new Latino support for his economic, border, immigration, and social proposals to secure an enduring m

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