Exit polls showed Vice President Kamala Harris managed to win majorities of Latino, black, and Asian voters in the 2024 race, but the numbers also revealed Donald Trump made gains among the key minority groups as he marched to victory and secured a second White House term.
Latinos swung more in Trump’s direction, giving him a bump of about 10 percentage points in “Hispanic-majority counties” compared to four years ago when Joe Biden won the presidential election, The New York Times reported. Harris still managed to get a slight majority of their vote, but she got dinged on the economy.
University of Houston political science professor Jeronimo Cortina told Axios: “Latinos were saying, ‘I don’t care what Trump says. I want to be able to pay the bills. I want to be able to send my kid to college. I want to pay the mortgage, to afford a new car.’”
Trump even managed to be the first Republican to win the most Hispanic county in the United States in more than a century: Starr County, Texas — which is about 97% Latino and is situated along the southern border with Mexico — went Trump’s way.
According to the Associated Press, Trump did slightly better with black voters. The outlet reported roughly 8 in 10 black voters supported Harris — a drop from the roughly 9 in 10 black voters who supported Biden — while Trump doubled his support among young black men.
“This election cycle, the fact that Black men have begun to be more vocal … We are willing to explore other political alternatives,” Darius Jones, founder and president of the National Black Empowerment Council, told POLITICO. “I think it’s something which, in the long run, is going to be advantageous to our community.”
The New York Times reported that majority-black counties in the swing state of Georgia — in particular: Hancock, Talbot, and Jefferson Counties — “shifted toward” Trump. He even flipped Baldwin County, which has a population that is 42% black, for the first time in 20 years.
An exit poll from NBC News showed Trump also gained about 5 percentage points among Asian Americans, who make up the fastest-growing racial group of eligible voters in the United States, though Harris won 54% of their votes.
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In Michigan, Trump won Dearborn and made “significant gains” in Hamtramck — two cities with the largest percentage of Arab Americans in the U.S. — as many expressed discontent with Middle East conflicts and the economy, per the Detroit Free Press. Jill Stein, a Green Party candidate, won more than 18% of the vote in Dearborn.
And it appears a larger share of New York’s large Jewish population backed Trump this time around. Fox News’ voter analysis — conducted in partnership with the AP — found 46% of Jewish voters in the blue state backed Trump while Harris got 54% support. In 2020, Trump got 37% support from Jewish voters in New York and Biden received 63%.
Newsweek highlighted one small bright spot for Harris: marginal growth among college-educated white voters as CNN’s exit polling showed Harris won 52% of their vote compared to 45% for Trump. Four years ago, Biden got 51% of their vote while Trump received 48%. Trump won 57% of white voters — the largest racial voting bloc — in 2024 and 58% in 2020.
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