(CP) The Latino Christian vote has shifted considerably in favor of President-elect Donald Trump within the 2024 presidential election, in keeping with exit polls.
Responses collected from 22,914 voters within the exit polls present large modifications amongst some demographics that possible performed a job in Trump securing the White Home.
Whereas almost each demographic has moved towards Trump in comparison with the 2020 election, his beneficial properties have been most pronounced amongst Catholics. In line with 2020 exit ballot information, President Joe Biden received 52% of the Catholic vote, in comparison with Trump's 47%.
Trump's help amongst Catholics rose to 58% in 2024, whereas Vice President Kamala Harris obtained 40%. Amongst white Catholics, Trump's share of help elevated from 56% in 2020 to 61% in 2024. Harris received a smaller share amongst this group of voters (35%) than Biden in 2020 (44%).
Trump received a majority of the Latino Catholic vote in 2024 (53%), whereas in 2020 he received simply 28%. 4 years in the past, an awesome majority of Latino Catholics (71%) supported Biden. This yr, Harris secured 46% of that group of voters.
In an announcement launched on Wednesday X, Brian Burch of the advocacy group CatholicVote stated that “Catholic voters performed a decisive function within the historic victory of Donald Trump and JD Vance.”
“These numbers are stunning and will develop into the largest hole between Catholics in a presidential race in many years. Catholics have as soon as once more emerged as a important voting bloc that can not be ignored,” he stated.
Burch believes Trump's marketing campaign secured the Catholic election as a result of the president-elect promised to “enhance the lives of these most affected by inflation and to convey a humane and orderly resolution to the chaos on the border.”
“Moreover, Trump and Harris have sharply diverged over the function of faith in America, with Harris sealing her destiny by telling Christians they don't belong in her congregation earlier than declaring there shall be no abortion provisions for believers,” he added. .
“Harris uncovered the truth that the Democratic Social gathering has a significant Catholic downside, with the Republican realignment now together with Hispanics, union members and working-class voters who’ve traditionally voted reliably for Democrats.”
Trump's help amongst Latino Protestants additionally elevated from 48% in 2020 to 64% in 2024. The 34% of the vote Harris obtained from Latino Protestants in 2024 was a pointy drop from the 51% help Biden obtained in 2020.
A a lot smaller shift occurred amongst black Protestants. In 2024, 85 p.c of black Protestants supported Harris, whereas 87% supported Biden in 2020. Trump's share of the vote on this group in each elections was 13%.
Trump noticed a major enhance in his general share of the non-white vote in 2024. Whereas the previous president received simply 32% of the Latino vote in 2020, that quantity rose to 46% in 2024. Solely a slim majority of Latino voters (52%) supported Harris in 2024, down from 65% who supported Biden in 2020.
Whereas 59% of Latino males supported Biden in 2020, in 2024 Trump secured the bulk (55%) of that demographic's vote. Amongst Latin American ladies, the swing towards Trump was much less pronounced, with a majority (60%) supporting Harris, at the same time as Trump's help amongst this group rose from 30% in 2020 to 38% in 2024.
Amongst Asians, Trump's share of the vote rose from 34% in 2020 to 39% in 2024, because the 54% help Harris obtained from this demographic was down from the 61% captured by Biden 4 years earlier.
Black ladies had been the one non-white voter group to present Harris the next share of the vote (91%) than Biden (90%). Harris additionally obtained a barely greater share of the vote from white ladies (45%) than Biden (44%).
Trump improved considerably amongst white evangelical born-again Christians in 2024. Whereas he received 76% of the vote among the many demographic 4 years in the past, that quantity rose to 82% this yr. Solely 17% voted for Harris in 2024, a major drop from the 24% who supported Biden in 2020.
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