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Latino voters In this election, they increased their support for candidate and now President-elect Donald Trump by 13 points, reaching 45% of this electoratewhich beats the record for Republican presidential candidates set by George W. Bush in 2004.

According to exit polls NBKannounced this Wednesday the Democratic candidate and vice president, Kamala Harris received 53% of the Latino vote In this Tuesday’s election, that’s down significantly from Joe Biden’s 65% in the 2020 election, Hillary Clinton’s 66% in 2016, or the 71% of Latinos supporting Barack Obama.

Harris performed worse than Biden among Latino voters in every swing state except Wisconsin, where she improved by one percentage point.

The biggest outflow of Latino votes for Harris came in Michigan, with a 24-point drop to 35% support, and in Pennsylvania, where voters rejected the Democrat by 21 percentage points over Biden in 2020 to 57%.

Also notable were the drops in Harris’s vote in Florida, where the decline was 11 points from 2020, or in Texas, where Latino support fell 15 points.

Trump has a clear mandate in this election, winning five of seven states considered key in the election and holding out for forecast results in Nevada and Arizona, where the Republican also maintains an advantage.

Latinos, a highly diverse group spread across the country, played an important role in Trump’s election victory, which sought to attract them by influencing economic supply, fighting inflation, creating jobs and ensuring that the current government’s immigration policies also impacted them negatively. influence.

EFE