Post-election polling continues to illustrate the depth of President-elect Donald Trump’s massive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Data indicates that Trump’s substantial win, in which he took the popular vote and all the swing states, was driven by historic gains in various voting demographics. However, Trump appears to have seen significant gains with Hispanic voters in particular.
Several post-election polls from The Economist / YouGov show a notable increase in Trump’s favorability among Hispanic voters. A pre-election survey in October found that 35 percent of Hispanic voters had a favorable view of Trump, while 61 percent had an unfavorable view. However, another survey from The Economist / YouGov conducted between November 9-12 found that 42 percent of Hispanic voters had a favorable view of Trump while 47 percent had an unfavorable view.
Furthermore, another survey conducted between November 17 and 19 found that 48 percent of Hispanic voters had a favorable and unfavorable view of Trump, showing a trend of progressively increasing favorability. Another poll conducted between November 23 and 26 discovered that Hispanics favored Trump at 48 percent, while those who viewed him unfavorably dropped to 45 percent.
Looking at the election results, an NBC Exit Poll found that Trump earned 45 percent of support from Latino voters nationwide while Harris attained 53 percent of the Latino vote. Moreover, the poll found that Trump actually outperformed Harris with Latino males with 54 percent of the vote compared to the vice president’s 44 percent.
“Trump won the support of 45% of Latino voters nationally compared with 53% for Harris, the NBC News Exit Poll found,” NBC News reported “That’s far better than the 33-point loss Trump suffered among Latinos in 2020, when he won 32% to Joe Biden’s 65%. And it may end up being the strongest GOP performance among Latinos in a presidential race since George W. Bush carried 44% in 2004.”
The American Tribune reported on CNN’s reaction to Trump’s victory, where data analyst Harry Enten was left stunned by the president-elect’s performance. CNN anchor Kate Bolduan said, “Talk to me about how his support in this election compares to the past.” Enten replied, “You know, I think the breadth of the improvement that Donald Trump had — Holy Toledo! All right. Trump gained ground in 49 states and the District of Columbia compared to 2020.”
Enten continued, “Trump scores the best GOP showing among 18- to 29-year-olds in 20 years. You have to go all the way back to 2004. How about among Black voters? It was the best performance for Republican candidate for president in 48 years since Gerald Ford back in 1976. And among Hispanic voters, the exit polls only go back since 1972, but Donald Trump’s performance on Tuesday was the best for a Republican presidential candidate in exit poll history.”
Continuing to interpret the data, Enten said, “He literally goes all the way back to history and breaks history. This is what we’re talking about, Kate Bolduan. Groups that you never thought that Donald Trump would do well among, even for a Republican candidate, that is what he did. If the 2016 election was about Donald Trump breaking through with White working class voters, this election was about breaking through and going to that Democratic coalition and tearing it apart.”
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