AXIOS (Russell Contreras) - Fragmenting Latino vote now a wildcard in elections
Latino voters aren't realigning — they're fragmenting. - Consultants and pollsters tell Axios that after moving toward Donald Trump in 2024, the nation's fastest-growing electorate is splintering into competing political identities, with no single partisan anchor after decades as a reliably Democratic bloc. Why it matters: This fracture helped reshape the 2024 election map — and it's one of the biggest wildcards in 2026 and 2028, even as the economy and Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement have given tailwinds to Democrats. - "It's a dealignment. It's not a realignment," Mike Madrid, a GOP consultant and author of "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority is Transforming Democracy," tells Axios. - He said Latinos…