There are going to be a lot of stories told about how and why Donald Trump won the 2024 election but one of the clear contributors to the win is the rightward shift of Hispanic voters. Trump set a new high-water mark with Hispanic voters this year, beating out the previous record set by George W. Bush twenty years ago.
Latino voters took a big right turn in an election dominated by voter outrage over the high cost of food and housing, helping Donald Trump secure a second term in the White House.
Vice President Kamala Harris finished with a slim majority of support from Hispanic voters, at 53%, while Trump vacuumed up about 45% of the vote, a 13-point increase from 2020 and a record high for a Republican presidential nominee, according to NBC News exit polls.
Trump’s Hispanic vote percentage beat the previous record, set by George W. Bush’s in 2004, when…
