New voter study spells bad news for Democrats

Sarah Anderson writes for PJMedia.com about interesting new information involving Americans’ voting preferences.

We all know by now that President Donald Trump won the 2024 election by some pretty big numbers, but a new study out from the Pew Research Center gives us a closer look at the people behind those numbers. The news is better than we thought, and it was already pretty good. 

According to the analysis, voters who supported Trump in 2024 are “far more racially and ethnically diverse” than they were in 2020 or 2016. 

As a matter of fact, when it comes to Hispanic voters, Trump and Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris ran almost neck-and-neck. In 2020, Joe Biden carried the Hispanic vote 61% to 36%, but in 2024, Harris only beat Trump by a three-point margin at 51% compared to Trump’s 48%. As for the black vote, Trump carried 15% of that compared to just 8% in 2020, and he even made some gains with Asian voters. In 2020, Biden won the Asian vote 70% to 30%, but in 2024, Harris won with just 57% compared to Trump’s 40%.  

The president also did quite well with immigrants who are now naturalized United States citizens. According to Pew, they make up about 9% of the voting population. In 2020, they voted overwhelmingly for Biden at 59% to 38%. In 2024, the margin narrowed significantly, with 51% voting for Harris and 47% voting for Trump. That one doesn’t necessarily surprise me — I’ve never met anyone as unhappy with illegal immigration as my friends who are immigrants who are in this country legally or who have become naturalized citizens over the years.   

In other categories, like education, Trump doubled his margin with non-college-educated voters compared to 2016, and he beat Harris with the rural vote by a whopping 40% margin. He also beat Harris with voters who attend religious services regularly, 64% to 34%.  

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