Latino voters historically pushed Donald Trump to victory in the 2024 general elections, confirming the rightward shift pundits and the media had predicted throughout the cycle. As post-election analysis ramps up, experts are seemingly pointing the finger at what might've been the main culprit— the economy.
Democrats still won the majority of the Latino vote, as they are accustomed to do. However, alarms are going off within the party as Trump, who has made a political career off of his anti-immigrant rhetoric, vacuumed around 45% of the vote, compared to Harris's 53%, a 13-point increase from 2020 and a record high for a Republican presidential nominee, according to NBC News exit polls.
