They voted for Trump last time. Now some are having second thoughts

US President Donald Trump was catapulted to the White House for a second term by a diverse, working-class coalition.

Many people in this powerful bloc, from gen Z men to Latinos and evangelical Christians, backed the president's America First agenda in 2024.

But two years into his second term, his approval ratings have plummeted and there are signs his support in these groups is crumbling.

While the president's personal brand is still considered strong among his MAGA base, Mr Trump's name will not appear on any ballots at the US midterm elections this week.

The ABC spoke to several voters from key demographics who backed Mr Trump last time, to see whether his Republican Party would get their support on Tuesday, local time, or whether they had changed their minds.

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Donald Trump won Celia Salmerón's vote in 2024 with promises to bring down the cost of living.

Two years on, the 58-year-old hairdresser deeply regrets her choice.

"He promised to give us money. But he didn't give us anything. What he gave us this time was problems," she said.

"Ever since Trump came in, I have been bankrupt. I have lost everything; my house, my car. I can't pay my credit cards."

Celia, a permanent US resident who immigrated from El Salvador as a child, runs a modest salon in a working class Maryland neighbourhood home to a large Hispanic population.

Many of her clients are undocumented immigrants, some with pending asylum claims. Two weeks before the ABC's visit, an ICE operation saw a barber a few shops down from Celia's violently detained by agents.

Celia says the shopping complex where her salon is located was once bustling, but not anymore.

"It's as though the devil came here to the United States to govern. Because only the devil governs that way, with cruelty and evil," she said.

"If I had known this man was going to behave this way, I would not have voted for him. And I regret voting for him."

Mr Trump made significant gains among Latino voters in 2024, with multiple polls indicating his support increased from 32 per cent at the 2020 presidential election to 48 per cent four years later.

But there are indications of a massive reversal now, with a recent New York Times/Sienna poll giving Democrats a 30-point lead among the diverse voting bloc.

When Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself depicted as Jesus Christ in April, Jon Edwards was shocked.

"That was a dumb thing to do … it was way out of line," the student minister said from a born-again Baptist church outside Atlanta, Georgia.

The president later deleted it, but the backlash had been begun, offending many Christians who form the bedrock of his Republican base.

The president has placed faith and religious freedom at the heart of his administration, even appointing a White House spiritual advisor, which is a move Jon has welcomed.

But the 31-year-old isn't convinced of the authenticity of Mr Trump's faith.

"He'll stand before God one day and have to give an answer to his claims … that's between the two of them," Jon said.

Religion has emerged as an increasingly prominent theme in the midterm elections, with a record number of faith leaders running as Democrats on federal and state offices.

Evangelical Christians have remained one of the president's most loyal supporters, although polling shows signs that support may be beginning to soften.

While Jon has been uncomfortable with the aggressive tactics used by ICE, he remains broadly positive of the president's second crack at the White House and does not regret voting for him at the 2024 presidential election.

"There's a lot of the promises that he made on the trail that I'm seeing come to fruition," Jon said, pointing to his crackdown on transgenderism and immigration.

But the 31-year-old's vote is far from certain, having swung between Republican and Democratic candidates in the past.

This midterms, he's leaning towards Georgia's Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff, whose campaign spoke to his values.

Tricia Busch has already battled cancer twice and undergone a stem cell transplant.

In the aftermath of her health crises, and the COVID-19 pandemic, she began paying close attention to America's health and environmental policies.

She threw her support behind the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement and its leader Robert F Kennedy Jr.

He promised to rein in vaccines (something that has been criticised by a majority of medical experts) and remove toxic chemicals from the country's food system.

"I wish I would have never voted and never wasted my time with it," she said, adding she felt betrayed by Mr Trump's administration.

"We're still having all our food getting sprayed with chemicals," she said.

"Meanwhile, we are still being diagnosed with cancer at astronomical rates. It's a complete failure."

Tricia lives in Des Moines in deep red Iowa, a state at the heart of American agriculture.

For many in the MAHA movement, a vote for the president was effectively a vote for RFK Jr. Now many of those voters feel forgotten and furious.

The mother-of-two who runs a blog and told her readers she now feels like "a political orphan".

Despite that, she is backing Republican senate candidate Zach Lahn at the midterms this week, and hoping he "doesn't become one of Trump's puppets".

Avery Toins had only ever voted Republican. Not anymore.

This midterms, he is backing the Democrats up and down the ballot.

According to multiple polls, Donald Trump nearly doubled his support among Black voters between the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, although most still backed his Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

Avery was among those who backed him, drawn to America First promises.

"He was meant to change the country for the better, Make America Great Again. That was the biggest lie ever told," he told the ABC.

"It was all just a scam to enrich himself and his cronies."

Avery runs a trucking company in Jackson, Mississippi, where rising gas prices and America's cost-of-living crisis have affected his business so badly, he's had to take out a loan.

"It's been rough. I've got 10 guys employed and they've got families to feed. I'm not seeing no relief in sight," he said.

"He undid everything that was already done. Instead of building off it, he just trashed everything. It just went to hell."

But Avery doesn't hope to be voting Democrat for long. Despite his disillusionment with the president, he still considers himself a lifelong conservative.

Fourth-generation farmer Scott Thomsen has voted for Donald Trump three times. But now he says enough is enough.

Speaking to the ABC as he harvests a field of corn on his Nebraska farm, Scott describes a tough year for farmers across the US.

He expected a bumper harvest but says diesel, fertiliser and equipment prices have surged during the president's second term.

The rising costs have left him worried about the future of the family business. His eldest son, one of his five children, hopes to take over the farm one day, a prospect that worries Scott.

"Our profit margin has been shrinking and we're seeing less and less of the pie every year," he said.

As a result of rising prices, a record number of farms have closed and the president's share of America's rural vote has shrunk, according to multiple polls.

Many farmers in the US have also complained about financial headwinds from the White House's tariff regime and trade wars.

Scott doesn't regret his support for Mr Trump, but wants to see him focus on decreasing the national debt and focusing on American issues.

Despite his financial frustrations, Scott plans on voting for candidates from Mr Trump's Republican Party in the midterms.

After two deployments to Iraq, Dale King returned home to Ohio and opened a gym.

Now, with the US embroiled in another seemingly intractable war in the Middle East, he fears lessons from the past have been ignored, and another generation is being sent into a conflict without a clear endgame.

The former military officer is unconvinced by the rationale for starting the war.

"Where was the concrete credible intelligence shown to the American people that they were at the finish line of developing enough enriched material to make ballistic material?"

"We should have learned from my generation that we don't need to send another generation to another Middle East war for undefined outcomes."

To Dale, the parallels with Iraq are unmistakable.

"Enough is enough. It's time to cut bait and return home and figure out some sort of negotiated outcome," he said.

Dale is not sure who he will vote for in the midterms but is adamant he will not back any candidates in support of the Iran war.

Dale said he was never a committed supporter of Mr Trump's, but has previously voted for him. He was initially drawn to the fact Mr Trump styled himself as an anti-establishment candidate.

Asked how optimistic he feels about his future, 29-year-old Nick Alverson responded: "How many swear words can I use?"

Nick, a college student, believes his generation has been priced out of home ownership while older Americans cash in.

Raised in the rust belt city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Nick is a registered independent.

He voted for the president with some scepticism in 2024, drawn to his persona as a political outsider and willingness to challenge conventions.

"He said the quiet part out loud," Nick said.

Men aged under 30 helped propel Mr Trump back into the White House two years ago, with polls showing more than half (56 per cent) of those who voted backed him.

But that support is eroding amid growing frustration over the economy, the war in Iran, and what some see as Mr Trump moving away from his America First priorities.

For Nick, the disillusionment runs deep.

"I'm sick to my stomach over it," he said. "Donald Trump turned his back on the average American. We have no business being in Iran."

Democrats have been eager to convert disillusioned Trump voters into their gain.

But Nick's disappointment hasn't pushed him towards the Democrats. Instead, he's decided not to vote "until there's a candidate that can affirm my values".