Donald Trump, according to exit polls, won a greater share of the Latino vote than any Republican Presidential candidate in at least the past half century, and maybe ever. At forty-six per cent-a fourteen-percentage-point increase from 2020- Trump beat George W. Bush's record by at least two points, and perhaps as many as six.
The most eye-popping results were in Miami-Dade County and in southern Texas, where Trump won almost every county along the Mexican border. According to exit polling in several battleground states-including Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania-his margin with Latino voters grew more between 2020 and 2024 than it did between 2016 and 2020.
In the final months of the race, with Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, campaign insiders said the efforts were paying off; after months of dismal polls for Joe Biden, Harris was not far from having the same Latino support that he had in 2020, and the insiders claimed those numbers would increase through Election Day.
The Democrats' version of the autopsy report that Republicans put out after their 2012 loss-which argued that they needed to fix their Latino (and Black, and Asian American, and Native American, women, youth, and L.G.B.T.Q.) problem-is already being written.
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