2 weeks Ago By Austin Alonzo
Former President Donald Trump is performing significantly better with Latino voters in two critical battleground states, according to the results of national exit polling. In the National Election Pool exit poll conducted by Edison Research on Nov. 5, Trump shrunk the margin between himself and the Democratic nominee by a substantial margin between 2016 and 2024.
The results are considered preliminary and will be updated as responses continue to arrive. In Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, Trump is trailing Vice President Kamala Harris by a 17-point margin among exit poll respondents who identified as Latinos. However, in 2020, he trailed President Joe Biden by a 42-point margin.
In 2016, he trailed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by a 52-point margin. In 2024, respondents who told exit pollsters they were members of a union household said they voted for Harris rather than Trump by a 10 percentage point margin. In 2020, 51 percent of respondents who identified as members of a union household said they voted for Trump.
According to the exit polling results in Pennsylvania, respondents who said they had graduated from college preferred Harris over Trump by a 10 percent margin. Those who said they did not hold a college degree chose Trump over Harris by an identical 10 percentage-point margin. The divide in Pennsylvania by education is growing.
In the 2016 exit polling, Trump led among those who said they did not have a college degree by 7 percentage points..
