Trump's Latino Support Shouldn't Be Surprising

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : As someone who has covered Latino voters for a decade, I say consider it likely that Trump secured the support of about half of Latino men, which is a serious accomplishment for his campaign, especially with Biden winning the group 59 percent to 36 percent in 2020.
61% : Meanwhile, AP VoteCast found Harris leading with 50 percent support from Latino men, edging Trump at 47 percent.
55% : These GOP gains are also evident in states like Arizona and Nevada, which have still not been called, but where Trump leads.
51% : CNN exit polls show 60 percent of Latinas supported Harris compared to 38 percent for Trump.
50% : In south Texas, for example, Trump won Starr County along the border, an area that's 97 percent Latino and a place Democrats have won since 1896.
44% : Until there is better validated voter data next year, this will have to do, and either way you look at it, Republicans continue to make serious gains with Latino voters and Trump likely ended up a few points ahead of where he was expected to be.
41% : The CNN exit polls show Harris winning Latinos 52 percent to 46 percent for Trump.
36% : Results for Latino men have led to a lot of consternation, however.CNN exit polls find Trump winning 55 percent of Latino men compared to 43 percent for Harris.
30% : "They were left wondering, 'What the hell is going on?'"While Trump did not roll out reams of economic policy plans, he was the choice of voters who said they were better off financially four years ago.
17% : Trump also flipped Florida's Osceola County, a heavily Puerto Rican area, from blue to red, which showed the controversial comments a comedian made at a Madison Square Garden MAGA rally about Puerto Rico being a "floating island of garbage" did not dissuade some Puerto Rican communities from voting for him.
12% : They should look no further than the top line of exit polls across the country, which showed voters were picking Trump and punishing the incumbent Biden-Harris administration over one issue above all others: the economy.

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