President-elect Donald Trump won his first Hispanic county in Texas on Tuesday night in a major upset for the first time in more than 100 years, after losing the same county eight years ago.
Trump defeated Vice President Harris in Starr County, Texas, by a landslide 57.7% to 41.8% on Tuesday night, becoming the first Republican to hold the county along the U.S.-Mexico border since 1898. . Fox 4 Dallas reported.
In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defeated Trump by 60 points, to a 76-point margin.
According to 2020 Census data, more than 90% of Starr County residents identify as Hispanic or Latino.
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Trump's historic performance in Starr County came in a election in which he continued to make inroads with Hispanic voters across the country.
According to data compiled by , Trump won six points of support among Hispanics in 2020, leaving Democrats with single-digit support among the bloc. financial times and other outlets.
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Trump flipped Miami-Dade County, Florida, one of the nation's largest Latino communities, winning about 2 percentage points more than President Joe Biden won in 2020.
“Hispanics are people who seek faith, family, hard work and the American Dream, and I think those are Republican values,” Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez, who represents the southern half of Miami and the Keys, told Fox. Ta. News Digital.
“The Democratic Party has gone so far to the left that it's almost to the point of socialism, and a lot of us have fled the country to escape socialism, so we're attracted to that,” said Jiménez, the only Cuban born. No,” he said. Member of Parliament.
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A Fox News voter analysis showed that Trump's cross-border appeal to Democratic districts was fundamental to his success. He improved on his 2020 numbers for Hispanics (41%, +6 points), black voters (15%, +7 points) and young voters (46%, +10 points).
These shifts to the right were especially pronounced for Hispanic men (+8 points), black men (+12 points), and men under 30 (+14 points) starting in 2020.
Fox News Digital’s Charles Creitz and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report
