WASHINGTON – A year after former Vice President Kamala Harris suffered colossal losses to President Donald Trump, Democrats on Nov. 4 roared back, sweeping gubernatorial, mayoral and local elections from coast to coast.
Those wins, in part, were fueled by a return of Latino voters, particularly Latino men, many of whom the party lost in the 2024 presidential election.
Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor’s race with 67% support among Latino voters, including 55% among Latino men, according to CNN exit polling. In Manassas Park, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC, where more than 40% of residents are Hispanic, preliminary results show Spanberger strongly outperformed Harris.
Further north, in New Jersey, a state with about a 20% Latino population, Democrat Mikie Sherrill trounced her Republican opponent. She won the support of 68% of Latino voters, according to CNN exit polling, with large margins of victory among all age groups.
For activists who’ve been tracking Latino voters' political views since the start of Trump’s presidency, the shift didn’t come as a surprise. Polls in the last nine months have shown drooping support for Trump and Republicans among this key voting bloc.
