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(CP) The Latino Christian vote shifted strongly in assist of President-elect Donald Trump within the 2024 presidential election, in accordance with exit polls.
Responses collected from 22,914 voters in exit polls present main adjustments amongst sure demographics that doubtless performed a job in Trump securing the White House.
While almost each demographic group moved in favor of Trump in comparison with the 2020 election, his beneficial properties have been most pronounced amongst Catholics. According to 2020 exit polling information, President Joe Biden acquired 52% of the Catholic vote whereas Trump acquired 47%.
Trump’s assist amongst Catholics elevated to 58% in 2024, whereas Vice President Kamala Harris acquired 40%. Among white Catholics, Trump’s share of assist elevated from 56% in 2020 to 61% in 2024. Harris acquired a smaller share amongst this group of voters (35%) than Biden did in 2020 (44%).
Trump acquired a majority of the Latino Catholic vote (53%) in 2024, whereas he captured simply 28% in 2020. Four years in the past, the overwhelming majority of Latino Catholics (71%) backed Biden. This yr, Harris secured 46% from this group of voters.
In an announcement posted on X Wednesday, Brian Burch of the advocacy group CatholicVote stated “Catholic voters performed a decisive position within the historic victory of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.”
“These numbers are surprising, and will show to be the biggest margin amongst Catholics in a presidential race in a long time. Catholics proved once more to be a vital voting bloc that can’t be ignored,” he said.
Burch believes the Trump marketing campaign secured the Catholic vote as a result of the president-elect promised “to enhance the lives of these most impacted by inflation, and by promising to carry a few humane and orderly resolution to the chaos on the border.”
“Further, Trump and Harris differed sharply over the position of faith in America, with Harris sealing her destiny by telling Christians they did not belong at her rallies, earlier than declaring there can be no lodging for folks of religion on abortion,” he added.
“Harris uncovered the truth that the Democratic Party has a giant Catholic downside, with the Republican realignment now incorporating Hispanics, union members, and dealing class voters that had reliably voted for Democrats previously.”
Trump’s assist amongst Latino Protestants additionally surged from 48% in 2020 to 64% in 2024. The 34% of the vote Harris acquired from Latino Protestants in 2024 amounted to a steep decline from the 51% assist captured by Biden in 2020.
A a lot smaller shift occurred amongst black Protestants. Eighty-five % of black Protestants backed Harris in 2024, in comparison with 87% who supported Biden in 2020. Trump’s vote share amongst this group for each elections was 13%.
Trump noticed his total vote share among the many nonwhite inhabitants enhance considerably in 2024. While the previous president captured simply 32% of the Latino vote in 2020, that quantity rose to 46% in 2024. Only a slim majority of Latino voters (52%) supported Harris in 2024, a drop from the 65% who backed Biden in 2020.
While 59% of Latino males supported Biden in 2020, Trump secured a majority (55%) of this demographic’s votes in 2024. The swing to Trump was much less pronounced amongst Latina girls as a majority of them (60%) backed Harris, though Trump noticed his assist amongst this group rise from 30% in 2020 to 38% in 2024.
Among Asians, Trump’s vote share rose from 34% in 2020 to 39% in 2024 because the 54% assist Harris acquired from this demographic marked a drop from the 61% captured by Biden 4 years earlier.
Black girls have been the one nonwhite group of voters to offer Harris a better share of the vote (91%) than Biden (90%). Harris additionally acquired a barely greater proportion of the vote from white girls (45%) than Biden did (44%).
Trump improved considerably amongst white Evangelical born-again Christians in 2024. While he acquired 76% of the vote among the many demographic 4 years in the past, that determine rose to 82% this yr. Only 17% voted for Harris in 2024, a big drop from the 24% who backed Biden in 2020.
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