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The way Americans voted Tuesday US election attempted to record exit polls conducted by Edison Research, capturing issues that concerned voters and the demographic base of their supporters Donald trump and his Joe biden.
Power among Latin Americans
Support for the Republican president appears to be growing among them Latin americans in major states, such as Florida Y Texas.
In Florida, according to exit polls, Trump and the Democratic candidate share the Latin American vote. In 2016, only 4 in 10 Latin Americans voted for the Republican president, who now appears to have the support of three in 10 non-white voters, compared to two in 10 four years ago.
Trump also maintained his leadership among white voters. According to exit polls by Edison Research, six out of ten white voters preferred the Republican, a percentage that remains the same compared to 2016.
Trump’s election campaign has seen progress among Cubans in busy South Florida, underscoring the government’s tough stance on Cuba and Venezuela.
In Texas, four in 10 Hispanics voted for Trump, up from three in 10 in 2016, according to exit polls in the state.
Nationally, although Biden leads Trump among non-white voters, the Republican won a higher percentage of the vote this year than in 2016.
Edison’s national poll showed that approximately 11% of African Americans, 31% of Hispanics and 30% of Asians voted for the Republican president, an increase of three percentage points in all three demographic groups since 2016.
The base of seniors voting for Trump is shrinking
Trump may need to take advantage of his better performance among non-white voters to make up for his losses among his traditional electoral base. It appears to have reduced the support of white men and older people in Georgia and Virginia., key pieces of the Republican electoral base, according to Edison’s polls.
Although the Republican still has the majority of votes from these groups, some of them turned to Biden.
Edison’s polls show that Trump won the vote of seven out of ten men in Georgia, down from his eight point lead over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Although he wins six out of ten of 65 voters Years ago in Georgia, the Republican saw drop its percentage, since in the previous presidential elections it was 7 out of 10.
In Virginia, the Trump acceptance rate among whites without a college degree fell to six in ten from seven to 10 in 2016. Similar figures are found among white men.
More encouraging for the president of the United States is the fact that six out of ten Virginia residents with an income of more than $ 100,000 support him.
Coronavirus concern
Opinion polls also highlighted the great concern of Americans about their pandemic. coronavirusas more than 9.4 million people in the US have already been infected and more than 230,000 have died.
Although only two out of ten declared at the national level that COVID-19 is the most important issue in his election as president of the US, half of the voters considered it important to reduce the pandemic, even if it hurts the economy.
In a nationwide exit poll, four in 10 voters said US efforts to contain the pandemic were “very bad.” In the two states of Florida and North Carolina, five out of ten said that the government’s treatment of COVID-19 was “somewhat or very bad.”
Finally, nine out of ten voters said they had decided who they would vote for as early as October, and the same percentage seemed confident that their state would count the votes correctly.
Other issues of concern to voters are the economy, racial inequality, crime, and safety and health.
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