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WASHINGTON: While the US presidential race remained indecisive, President Donald Trump showed some surprising gains among Latino voters and other non-white voters, but they may have been offset by losses among those who supported him four years ago, according to the exit polls conducted by Edison Research.
Here are some highlights from the polls, based on in-person interviews with voters on Tuesday, in-person interviews at early voting centers before Election Day, and telephone interviews with people who voted by mail.
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NEW FORCE WITH LATINOS
Trump won both Florida and Texas over Democratic opponent Joe Biden in part because of new support from Latino voters.
In Florida, according to exit polls, Trump and Biden split the Latino vote. In 2016, Trump only won four out of 10 Latino voters in his race against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Overall, he was winning three out of 10 non-white voters compared to winning just two out of 10 four years ago.
Trump maintained his lead among white voters in Florida. According to exit polls from Edison Research, six in 10 white voters said they voted for Trump, unchanged from 2016.
Trump’s campaign made winning over Cuban-American voters in populous South Florida a priority by emphasizing the administration’s hard-line policy toward Cuba and Venezuela, and calling Biden and the Democrats “socialists” in the manner of the regimes of those countries.
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In Texas, four in 10 Hispanics voted for Trump, up from three in 10 in 2016, according to exit polls in that state.
Edison’s national exit poll showed that while Biden led Trump among non-white voters, Trump had received a slightly higher proportion of the vote from non-white voters than in 2016.
The poll showed that about 11 percent of African Americans, 31 percent of Hispanics and 30 percent of Asian Americans voted for Trump, an increase of 3 percentage points from 2016 among the three groups.
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OLD TRUMP ERODING BASE
Trump may need his best performance with non-white voters, however, to try to make up for losses within his traditional political base.
The Republican president appears to have lost some support among white men and some older voters in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to Edison’s polls.
While Trump is still winning the majority of those voters, some of them switched to supporting Biden, exit polls showed.
Trump won all three states in 2016, but all three remained undecided early Wednesday (November 4).
Edison’s polls showed that Trump won seven out of 10 white men in Georgia, up from an eight-in-10 lead over Clinton in 2016. While Trump is winning six out of 10 voters who are at least 65 years old in Georgia, that it was less than seven. at 10 four years ago.
According to the exit poll, Trump appears to have lost support in Pennsylvania, a state that could determine the choice, among white men, college-educated voters and people under 44.
The poll found that 61 percent of white men backed Trump’s bid for reelection, 3 points less than in 2016.
Forty percent of college graduates voted for Trump, 5 points less than four years ago, and 33 percent of voters ages 18 to 44 backed Trump in the state, 9 points less than in 2016.
Trump won 56 percent of Pennsylvania voters who are at least 45 years old, which is 3 points more than in 2016.
In Wisconsin, about six out of 10 white men without a college degree voted for Trump, up from seven out of 10 in 2016. And four out of 10 independents this time backed Trump, compared to half of that state’s voters. according to Edison.
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COVIDED CONCERNS
Edison Research national survey results also revealed deep concern over the coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 9.4 million people in the United States this year and killed more than 230,000.
While only two in 10 voters nationally said that COVID-19 was the issue that mattered most in their election for president, half of American voters believe it is more important to contain the coronavirus even if it hurts the economy.
Trump made the full opening of the US economy a centerpiece of his re-election campaign, even as infections continue to rise. Biden has claimed that Trump does not deserve a second term due to his handling of the pandemic.
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In the national exit poll, four out of 10 voters said they thought the effort to contain the virus was “very bad.” In Florida and North Carolina, five out of 10 voters said the national response to the pandemic was “somewhat or very badly.”
The poll found that nine out of 10 voters had already decided who to vote for before October, and nine out of 10 voters said they were confident their state would accurately count the votes.
Edison compiles exit polls and live election results for the National Election Pool media consortium.
