President Donald Trump’s 73 million votes record is around 10 million more than he got in his last bid for presidency, based on current data.
The president made significant gains with all racial groups, performing particularly well among minority voters.
According to the Edison Research exit poll from the 2016 general election, just 8 percent of black American voters chose Trump over Clinton. The same Edison Research exit poll this year shows that black Trump voters have grown to 12 percent—a 50 percent increase.
For both black men and women, there are significant jumps. Nineteen percent of black men voted for Trump in 2020, versus 13 percent in 2016. Just 4 percent of black women chose Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016, but that figure has more than doubled to 9 percent against Democratic candidate Joe Biden this year.
Trump’s growing popularity among Hispanic voters is similarly significant in Southern Texas, in traditionally Democrat counties bordering Mexico. Zapata County, for example, where nearly 95 percent of the population is Hispanic, voted for Trump by 52 percent to 47 percent over Biden. The county voted for Hillary Clinton over Trump by 65 percent to 32 percent back in 2016.
From NTD News
