SEATTLE - With the 2024 presidential elections in the rearview mirror, exit polls can be used to learn more about why and how people voted the way they did. One of the most interesting trends this year is the Latino vote and its impact on the presidential race that ended up propelling Donald Trump back to the White House.
During the last weeks of the campaign, Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian who spoke at a Trump rally in New York City, called Puerto Rico an island of "garbage." As Republicans tried to minimize the harm caused by Hinchcliffe's remarks, Democrats believed this would secure the support of the Latino vote ahead of the November 5 elections. But as exit polls reveal, nothing the comedian said —nor Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric during the campaign— influenced the way Latinos voted.
