Understanding the Demographic Shift That Pushed Trump to Victory

President-elect Donald Trump has won greater support from nearly all demographic groups, but perhaps the most consequential one has been Gen Z voters aged 18 to 29. Although the majority of young voters still turned out for his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump managed to greatly increase his success with this stratum, garnering 46 percent of its vote compared with 36 percent in 2020, according to AP VoteCast, a national poll conducted by the National Opinion Research Center before and on election day. Trump also nearly doubled his support among black voters, receiving 15 percent of the votes compared with 8 percent in 2020, and improved with Hispanic voters (41 percent versus 35 percent). Those groups represented only 3 percent and 8 percent of the total votes he received, respectively, while the young voters made up 15 percent of his votes....