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Source: Axios

Latino voters, whose dramatic shift toward President Trump helped power his 2024 victory, are moving sharply back toward Democrats ahead of the midterms, two new national polls show.Why it matters: Republicans built pieces of their 2026 strategy, including newly drawn House districts in Texas and Florida, around the assumption that Trump's historic Latino gains would endure. A reversal is complicating that bet in key races.Trump's breakthrough with Latino men was among the clearest signs of a changing GOP coalition in 2024. Two years later, those gains look far less durable, though Democrats haven't recovered all the ground they lost in the last decade.The latest: A new NBC News/Telemundo poll found Latino voters preferred Democratic control of Congress 59%–35% — a 24-point advantage, double the margin the same poll found in 2024.A new CBS News/YouGov poll tells the same story: Hispanic likely voters favor Democratic House candidates 60%–39%.Zoom in: Latino men have undergone a particularly strong political whiplash.Hillary Clinton won Latino men by 31 points in 2016, according to the Edison National Election Pool exit poll, and Biden won them by 23 points in 2020. But in 2024, Trump won them by 10 points.NBC now finds Latino men preferring Democratic congressional...