Trump Outperforms Romney With Unprecedented Number Of Minority Votes

For months, political pundits from both sides of the political divide insisted that now-President-elect Donald Trump had no chance of getting support from Hispanics and African-Americans because of some things he had said.

Many polls showed Trump doing horribly among those groups, but exit polling data from Election Day showed that Trump actually outperformed 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, CNN reported.

Among Hispanics, Trump got 29 percent of their support while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got 65 percent. While that is a large gap, in 2012 Romney got 27 percent support compared to President Barack Obama’s 71 percent support.

The picture was very similar among African-American voters. Clinton had 88 percent to Trump’s 8 percent, but Romney only got 7 percent to Obama’s 93 percent.

While these shifts were small, they were just enough to boost Trump’s numbers in key areas and allowed him to win swing states and crack the “blue wall” that Clinton had hoped would win her the presidency.

Clinton spent months trying to court millennial voters, and while she did win them over, fewer supported her than had supported Obama. She got 54 percent while Obama got 60 percent.

Interestingly enough, Trump received 37 percent of the millennial vote, which is identical to the share received by Romney in 2012. Trump also got less of the white vote than Romney did, 58 percent compared to 59 percent.

Liberals were sure that Trump’s rhetoric would drive minorities and young voters to the polls to support Clinton, but it turns out they were very wrong.

It will be interesting to see how the demographics are broken down in 2020 when Trump is up for re-election, as he has promised to fix America’s inner cities and help African-Americans and Hispanics rise out of poverty.

If he can accomplish those things (or at least make good progress) in four years, we could see some very different numbers in the 2020 presidential race.

H/T The Daily Caller

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