The Districts That Reveal Latinos’ Rebellion Against Donald Trump

Newsweek · Jesus Mesa · 2026-11-05 02:51 UTC

From South Texas to Miami and New Jersey, these districts show how far Latino voters moved away from Trump and the GOP on Tuesday.

Latino voters moved away from President Donald Trump on Tuesday, from the Rio Grande Valley to Paterson, New Jersey, helping Democrats win seats Republicans had redrawn to hold and nearly toppling two in Miami.

An NBC News exit poll showed 60 percent of Latino voters backing Democratic House candidates and 35 percent backing Republicans. Two years ago, Pew Research Center's study of validated voters found Trump winning 48 percent of Latino voters to 51 percent for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

"What we saw was a massive rebuke of Donald Trump and a rejection of the Republican Party that's been enabling him," Mike Madrid, Republican strategist who studies the Latino vote, told Newsweek.

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