Chicago – November 07, 2024
Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign, polls indicated that President-elect Donald Trump was gaining historic support from minority voters. The election results have now confirmed those predictions.
Across the country, thousands of U.S. counties shifted right compared to 2020, helping Trump win the national popular vote—a milestone no Republican had reached in 20 years. Key counties demonstrated Trump’s appeal to groups that traditionally favored Democrats.
“Trump won more support from Black and Latino voters because he went to them directly and earned their votes,” explained Fox News analyst Gianno Caldwell. “Most Republican presidential candidates don’t typically campaign in these areas.”
In northern New Jersey, Passaic County, where 45% of residents are Hispanic, Trump won nearly half the vote, an improvement of nine percentage points over 2020. This shift surprised Democrats, as Hillary Clinton won the county with 74% in 2016.
In Starr County, Texas—a former Democratic stronghold where 97% of residents are Hispanic—Trump won with 57.7%, marking the first Republican win there in 132 years. Similarly, in Osceola County, Florida, a traditionally Democratic county that is 56% Latino, Trump secured 50% of the vote, narrowly defeating Kamala Harris’ 48%.
