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Fox News
28-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
New poll reveals full extent of Trump's gains with minority voters in 2024
A new poll from Pew Research Center highlighted President Donald Trump's growing coalition of racially and ethnically diverse voters, Thursday. The Pew Research Center poll, which the organization calls "a study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters," said that Trump made up extensive ground with Hispanic voters, Black voters and Asian voters. It found that Trump significantly closed the gap on Hispanic voters, with 51% of them going to former Vice President Kamala Harris, and 48% going to Trump, a significant shift from the 2020 presidential election, when Trump fell behind with Hispanic voters to former President Joe Biden, 61%-36%. Trump increased his support among Black voters by 7%, with 15% of Black voters supporting Trump in November, up from 8% during the 2020 presidential election. Asian voters, while still trending to the left with 57% supporting Harris, voted 40% for Trump, up from 2020, when 70% supported Biden and 30% went for Trump. The voters' level of education also played a role. Trump had a 14-point advantage, 56% to 42%, among voters who did not have a 4-year college degree, with the Pew Research Center reporting that Trump doubled his 2016 margin among these voters. Harris won college-education voters by a margin of 57% to 41%. Voters who lived in rural areas also chose Trump overwhelmingly, 69%-29%, while 65% of urban voters chose Harris, and only 33% chose Trump. Trump also did well among religious voters, with almost two-thirds, or 64% of them who attended religious services monthly or more backing Trump, and only about a third, or 34%, voting for Harris. The 45th and 47th president also gained some ground with men, with 55% - 43% voting for him. Men under 50-years-old chose Trump 49% - 48%. In 2020, they chose Biden by 10 points, with 53% going for Biden, and 43% going for Trump. "President Trump's historic reelection and the overall MAGA movement is a big tent welcome for all and home to a large swath of the American people," Harrison Fields, special assistant to the president and principal deputy press secretary, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "The President continues to foster a national pride that should be celebrated daily, and he is honored to serve all Americans," Fields added. "The American people voted for a return to common sense, and the President is delivering on every campaign promise supported by 77 million voters and is ushering in our Golden Age."
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Maine likely to remain in compact to choose presidents based on national popular vote
Jun. 16—AUGUSTA — The Maine Senate voted Monday to reject an effort to withdraw from a multistate compact that could eventually require Maine to award its four Electoral College votes for president to the winner of the national popular vote. The 18-16 vote against withdrawing from the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact means the bill is unlikely to secure final passage, even after the House of Representatives voted 76-71 to repeal the law enacted last year to have Maine join the agreement. The measure was not debated in the Senate Monday, though it did draw arguments from lawmakers when it was before the House last month. Rep. Barbara Bagshaw, R-Windham, the sponsor of LD 252, and other opponents said Maine's current system, which awards two electoral votes to the statewide winner and one to the winner in each of the state's two congressional districts, should be preserved and emulated across the country. They argued that rural voters, especially in the 2nd District, would be silenced and that Maine would be giving its influence to larger states. "Under the current system, Mainers' votes matter, our rural communities matter, our people's priorities matter," Bagshaw said. "But under the national popular vote, Maine's influence would be cast aside for larger populations thousands of miles away." Proponents of the compact have said the presidency is a unique national office that should go to whoever wins the most votes nationally, even if they end up with fewer Electoral College votes. They argue that the current system forces candidates to concentrate on winning votes in a handful of swing states, while ignoring others. When a state joins the compact, it pledges that all of its electoral votes will be given to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationwide, rather than the candidate who won the vote in just that state. The compact will only be activated after enough states join to control 270 Electoral College votes, the minimum number needed to win the presidency. Seventeen states and Washington, D.C., have enacted national popular vote laws and have committed 209 electoral votes so far, according to the nonprofit National Popular Vote, which advocates for states to join the compact. Copy the Story Link
