It turns out that raising taxes, rallying around violent illegal immigrants, and standing up for antisemitism and dudes in women’s sports is a recipe for political disaster — unless you’re running for mayor of New York City.
The latest deep dive into the numbers behind Donald Trump’s historic victory over political insanity should be a wake-up call for Democrats. It won’t.
Pew Research Center’s analysis of the 2024 election validates what we already suspected, shedding greater light on how the Republican became only the second candidate in U.S. history to win a second nonconsecutive term in the White House. Trump did so by expanding his base with voters fatigued by the excesses of the radical left — particularly among minority groups that Democrats have long taken for granted.
“Trump won with a voter coalition that was more racially and ethnically diverse than in 2020 or 2016,” Pew’s study states. The data centers on the more reliable validated voters — those confirmed to have voted in the election.
‘Considerably More Diverse’
Trump easily won the popular vote and the electoral college (312) in defeating former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ anointed replacement candidate for the cognitively compromised Joe Biden. Trump, thanks in large part to Harris’ inability to hide from her record supporting incredibly unpopular policies, chipped off the left’s traditionally reliable base, black and other nonwhite voters, according to the analysis. He won 15 percent of black voters, up from 8 percent in 2020, and claimed 40 percent of Asian voters to Harris’ 57%. Harris suffered a 13 percentage point drop in Asian voter support compared to Biden’s 2020 totals.
Trump’s most impressive gains were in the larger bloc of Hispanic voters, battling to near parity with 48 percent of the vote to Harris’ 51 percent. Biden won 61 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2020 compared to Trump’s 36 percent. According to Pew’s study, Trump benefited from higher turnout from Republicans and some Democrat defectors.
“He also held an edge over Harris among voters who did not vote four years earlier – a group that was considerably more diverse than those who voted in both elections,” the report states.
Voters who sat out the 2020 election experienced firsthand the miserable consequences of doing so. You can understand why they didn’t want to take that chance again.
‘People Are Waking Up’
Tony Delgado, CEO of Latino Wall Street and former Hispanic director for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign, said Democrats have gone so far left they have left the country. Delgado, like a lot of Hispanic Americans, said he grew up in a Catholic Democrat household that revered “Jesus, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.”
“Now, dude, it’s crazy. [Democrats] are supporting issues and pushing policies so extreme, so radical, no one supports them,” Delgado told me this week in a phone interview from Miami, fresh from the CPAC Latino summit. This year, the Conservative Political Action Conference teamed up with Latino Wall Street to “defend American Values: Faith, Family and Freedom.”
Delgado said a lot of Hispanic voters believe those core values are under assault by a far-left Democratic Party that has left them behind.
“I think people are waking up,” he said. “I think Cardi B reading from a fake script off of phone at a Kamala Harris rally, they’re not fooling anyone. In fact, they really [expletive deleted] insulted us this time around.”
‘A Very Long Time’
Men overall backed Trump over Harris (55%-43%), according to the Pew analysis, with men under 50 giving Trump a slight edge (49% to 48% for Harris) after Biden won the group by 10 parentage points (53% to 43%) in 2020.
But Trump edged out Harris among Hispanic men (50% to 48%), a remarkable 20-point turnaround for the Republican from 2020.
The Pew data show 21 percent of black men voted for Trump, to Harris’ 75 percent. In 2020, Biden claimed 87 percent of the vote, with Trump garnering just 12 percent.
DaSean Gallishaw, a black man from Fairfax, Va., told the Associated Press in November that he voted for Trump because Democrats’ rhetoric failed to match their actions. “It’s been a very long time since the Democrats ever really kept their promises to what they’re going to do for the minority communities,” he said, adding that he thought the Republican Party’s “minority community outreach really showed up.”
For many Americans, 2024 really was the economy, stupid. And Biden and his leftist friends made a mess of the economy — the No. 1 issue in the election.
Trump also made significant inroads with Hispanic women, losing the category by only 6 percentage points (52% to 46%). Trump picked up just 33 percent of the the vote in 2020 to Biden’s 65 percent. Women overall favored Harris by 7 percentage points, but Trump made slight gains from 2020 and Harris’ support slid a couple of notches from Biden’s performance.
A Matter of Faith
After years of Democrat-led DEI initiatives, trans insanity, and the left’s war on Judeo-Christian values, the faithful stood up.
The Pew analysis found nearly two-thirds of voters (64%) who attend faith-based services monthly or more voted for Trump. Harris received little more than a third of the church-going vote. Perhaps an October campaign stop in Wisconsin crystalized things for Christians. Protesters in the crowd at the Harris rally shouted, “Christ is king!” and “Jesus is Lord!”, interrupting the former VP as she was berating Trump for nominating Supreme Court justices who put an end to nationalized abortion.
“Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally,” Harris mocked, to her supporters’ delight. “No, I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street,” she added, chortling and waving to the protesters as they were escorted out of the event.
Like the rest of the accomplice media, PBS seemed absolutely baffled by Trump’s big victory. Post-election, PBS reporter Geoff Bennett sat down with a real Christian to try to find out what the hell happened.
“Well before the election, you predicted that Latinos and Latino evangelicals in particular would vote for Donald Trump. Why?” the reporter asked Pastor Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and a former adviser to presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Rodriguez told Bennett that November’s election “was the official breaking up of the Latino community with the Democratic Party.” He explained what the left has failed to get.
“The primary reason I do believe has to do with faith,” Rodriguez said. “Latinos are becoming more and more evangelical every single year. That evangelical ethos will prompt them to embrace what you would deem as conservative values, what we deem as biblically substantiated truths. So Latinos are becoming more conservative because of their faith.”
Rodriguez also believes Hispanics are voting more Republican because the Democratic Party “abandoned the party of Barack Obama.” He considers it a more moderate time in liberal politics. Amazingly, it was. But in his two terms and post-presidential life, “racial arsonist” Obama lit the fuse on the identity politics that has roiled the party and the country for the better part of the past 20 years.
Testing Success
The polling shows what the outcome of last November’s political contest told us: Americans have grown tired of the extreme left that is now the rudder for the Democratic Party ship. According to Pew, Republicans and Independents who lean that way made up 51 percent of the electorate in 2024, up 4 percentage points from the 2020 election.
“Trump didn’t win because he got disaffected Democrats and independents to vote for him; he won because he got those people to switch parties entirely,” Henry Olson, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote in the New York Post. “It’s likely, then, that 2024 was the first presidential election since at least 1932 where more voters were Republicans than Democrats.”
The question now is, how do Republicans build on the expanded voter base Trump delivered in 2024? More so, how do they not screw up their success? The GOP better have some good answers to those questions in next year’s big political test: Midterms sans Donald Trump on the ballot.
Delgado said Hispanics will continue to flee a Democratic Party they can no longer identify with. The entrepreneur and grassroots activist said he does worry about the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration law enforcement and deportation policies could have on Hispanic voters in 2026. He believes it’s a balancing act in cleaning up the illegal immigration mess that Biden made. Delgado is pushing passage of Florida Republican Rep. Maria Salazar’s Dignity Act, which would provide a pathway to citizenship or at least legal status for millions of illegal immigrants.
But Trump campaigned on mass deportations, and Republicans back him on that. A new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll shows 80 percent of Republican voters surveyed said Immigration & Customs Enforcement actions are “about right” or that the agency “has not gone far enough.” While the poll shows 54 percent of respondents say ICE has gone too far, it also found 80 percent of Americans support or strongly support the federal government’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants convicted of a violent crime. And a solid majority (59 percent) support deporting illegal aliens convicted of nonviolent crimes.
“Meanwhile, a plurality of Americans — 43% — believe the current U.S. deportation policies are making the U.S. safer. That’s compared to 33% who say they’re making the nation less safe and another 24% who say they’re not having an effect either way,” the left-leaning PBS reported.
Illegal immigration, more so the Biden administration-sponsored invasion of America was, after all, one of the top issues on voters’ minds as they went into Election Day 2024. It remains a top concern.
“Biden created the problem and it’s going to be up to President Trump and Republicans to fix the problem,” Delgado said.