Former President Donald Trump is doing historically well among Black and Hispanic voters, polls show.
Mr. Trump is averaging 20% of Black voters and 42% of Hispanic voters across five polls, The Washington Post reports. These numbers could set modern-day records for a Republican in a presidential election among groups that typically tend to vote Democratic.
In 2020, Mr. Trump grabbed only 8% of Black voters and 36% of Hispanic voters, according to the Pew Research Center’s validated voter survey.
According to American Enterprise Institute’s exit polls, the last time Black voters had a big showing for the Republican candidate was in 1972 with 18% for President Richard Nixon, and 16% in 1976. Since then, no Republican candidate has received more than 12% of support from Black voters.
Hispanic voters have always tended to have higher percentage support for Republican candidates, with the exit polls showing 37% in 1984 and 44% in 2004.
The Post reported that individual polls tend to have smaller sample sizes on Black and Hispanic voters, which is why they combined five polls. Mr. Trump received 25% support of Black voters in a recent Quinnipiac University poll and 17% in a CBS News poll.
Mr. Trump got nearly half of Hispanic voters’ support in the CBS poll with 47%, and 40% in the Quinnipiac poll.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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