According to exit polling data, President-elect Donald Trump won the White House on Nov. 5 thanks in part to a massive improvement in his performance with Latino voters and younger voters.
On Nov. 5, the National Election Pool (NEP) exit poll conducted by Edison Research surveyed more than 22,800 voters as they left the polls in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Those figures are a snapshot of the electorate that overwhelmingly chose Trump and sent control of the Senate back to the Republican Party.
Latino Support Helps Trump
Nationally, Trump won about 45 percent of the Latino vote, according to the exit polling. While he lost to Vice President Kamala Harris with the racial group that makes up as much as 13 percent of the electorate, he performed significantly better with Latino voters in this election than he did in 2020….