Vice President Kamala Harris may have won in New Jersey, but it wasn’t by much.
Ashley Koning, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, said New Jersey which traditionally leans Democratic saw some counties flip Republican, a shift she attributes primarily to Latino men.
“We saw that the top Latino-Hispanic counties like Hudson and Cumberland counties flipped for Trump,” Koning said. And in other counties that have large Hispanic and Latino communities, “we see Trump numbers rose in those counties even though Harris won them. This seems to be correlating with a lot of the national patterns we see when it comes to Latino voters, specifically Latino male voters.”
Labor advocate Patricia Campos-Medina, who sought the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator, said, “The Latino did vote for Trump because he was able to sell them a message to an economy that appealed to them. Latina women did stay with Kamala because we identify more with the issues around reproductive freedom and opportunity for our children.”
