Hispanic Texas voters backing Trump, rejecting sharia and Cornyn

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Texas Hispanic voters overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump’s job performance and immigration agenda, according to a new poll from Republican Tejano PAC, a group that promotes conservative principles in public service.

The survey, conducted by National Victory Strategies between April 21 and April 27, questioned 1,012 Texas voters. Thirty-six percent of those surveyed said illegal immigration is their top concern.

Trump has cracked down on illegal immigration since returning to office, with a particular focus on activity at the Texas border. As a result, violent crime has dropped sharply across the United States, according to a Department of Homeland Security report last June.

According to the department’s data, gun assaults declined 21%, aggravated assaults fell 10%, sexual assaults dropped 10%, and carjackings decreased 24% between January and June 2025 compared with the same period the year before.

“Seventy percent of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] arrests are of illegal aliens who have been convicted or charged with a crime,” former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said at the time. “These arrests and deportations of criminal illegal aliens are having real impact on public safety.”

The poll also found that 16% of respondents identified the “Islamification of the United States” as their top concern.

In fall 2025, Texas Republicans Rep. Chip Roy and Rep. Keith Self co founded the Congressional Sharia Free America Caucus, citing concerns about what they describe as growing Islamist influence in the United States.

“Let’s be very clear: There is a war being waged against Western civilization, against the United States of America, and against the state of Texas,” Roy previously said. “Since 9/11, some five million people have been granted the ability to come into our country from majority Muslim countries, in a post 9/11 world where we were attacked.”

“These attacks, clustered in just a few weeks, shows that the enemy are inside the gates,” Self said after a wave of terrorist attacks rocked the United States in early 2026. “We cannot allow that here in the United States.”

Since its founding, the caucus has introduced dozens of pieces of legislation, held televised press conferences, and expanded its membership to more than 65 members of Congress.

Statewide and National Elections

On the midterm electoral front, the poll found Sen. John Cornyn trailing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the upcoming Republican Senate primary runoff, 50% to 23%, with 27% undecided. (A separate poll of likely Texas voters out Tuesday from the University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs shows Paxton with a 3% lead over the incumbent.)

In the May 2026 Republican runoff for attorney general between Roy and attorney Mayes Middleton, Roy leads 36% to 34%, according to the Tejano poll of Hispanics, while 30% of voters remain undecided.

Regarding the 2028 presidential election, 40% of the voters surveyed in the poll indicated that they would prefer Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vice President JD Vance as the Republican nominee. Twenty-nine percent indicated otherwise.

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]