Exit polls taken on Election Day revealed notable voter shifts and opinions that, together, sealed President-elect Donald Trump's electoral victory. Survey data indicates that the Democratic Party lost small yet key margins of support from typical members of its coalition and Republicans successfully picked some of them up all while maintaining its base.
As Americans work to make sense of the 2024 election outcome, pollsters and political scholars told Salon the data shows American voters yearned for a change from the largely unpopular status quo under President Joe Biden — and they saw it in Trump.
