Poorer voters flocked to Trump and other data points from the election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : At the same time, Trump enjoyed enduring support from voters without a college degree, with nearly two-thirds voting for the former president, according to exit polling in ten states by NBC News.
62% : Joe Biden's victory over Trump in 2020 owed much to the big Democratic turnout in swing-state suburbs, including a blue wave in the majority-white suburbs of Pennsylvania and Georgia, as well as both majority-white and majority-Latino areas in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona.
62% : Trump even managed to flip Florida's most populous county, the majority-Hispanic Miami-Dade County, for the first time since 1988.
54% : Not all of the swing towards Trump across the country was attributable to an increase in support for the Republican.
50% : Even in liberal enclaves like Philadelphia, the most populous city in the swing state of Pennsylvania, voters swung towards Trump in majority-Hispanic areas, even while Harris won those precincts overall, according to an FT analysis of municipal data.
48% : While New York swung to Trump by 12 points in 2024, fewer than 190,000 additional people voted for him than in 2020.
46% : In Texas, some of the largest swings towards Trump also came from majority-Hispanic counties, including Starr County on the US-Mexico border, which has a Hispanic population of over 96 per cent.
45% : But the results showed that Latinos, as well as other non-white voters, are increasingly drawn to Trump.
42% : In contrast to 2020, the majority of lower-income households or those earning less than $50,000 a year voted for Trump this election.
36% : But on Tuesday, Trump captured more votes than Harris everywhere outside large cities, including suburban areas.
34% : In Texas, Trump managed to flip four counties on the US-Mexico border that had voted for Democratic presidential candidates since the 1970s.
31% : Of the swing states, only in Pennsylvania did Democrats lose more votes than Trump gained.
7% : The results from Tuesday show just how damaging the issue was for Harris, who was blamed by Trump for the record high number of border crossings during the Biden administration.

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