New analysis shows that young voters are turning away from the Democratic party in midterm elections. The GOP also made gains among Black and Latino voters.
According to AP VoteCast, a comprehensive national survey of voters, young voters (under 30) overwhelmingly favored Democratic House candidates over Republican candidates in the recent election, with 53% support for Democrats compared to 41% for Republicans. However, this level of support for Democrats has declined since the 2020 presidential election, when 61% of these voters backed President Joe Biden over Donald Trump, and in 2018, when Democrats regained control of the House, 64% of voters aged 18 to 29 supported the party compared to 34% for the GOP.
In 2018, Republican candidates received just 8% support from Black voters, and former President Donald Trump received 8% in 2020. Among Latinos, Democrats had a 31-point lead over Republicans in 2018 and a 28-point lead in 2020.
However, a November poll from the Wall Street Journal showed that 17% of Black voters now support Republicans, and Democrats’ lead among Latinos has shrunk to just 5 points. This trend was evident on Election Day when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis received the support of a majority of Latino voters, shocking many liberal commentators.
Fox News highlighted how the high level of support for Gov. DeSantis among Latino voters prompted a panel of NBC News anchors—Chuck Todd, Lester Host, Savannah Guthrie, and José Diaz-Balart—to discuss new strategies for engaging with the community. One consultant told Todd that Democrats need to stop stereotyping Latinos and assuming that a single issue will determine their vote.
Todd stated that he “had a Democratic consultant say to me, ‘We gotta stop putting Latinos in a box and trying to like treat them as African Americans,’ that there’s one issue that will somehow unite” Latino voters. He added, “Stop trying to single them out, instead whatever your pitch at swing voters, pitch that to Latino voters… How we carve up the White vote in those different buckets, that’s how you – the Latino vote is no different.”
