Donald Trump’s Black Support Soared, Doubling in Wisconsin

Support for President-elect Donald Trump has soared among Black voters, doubling in Wisconsin, according to exit polls.

According to NBC News, which polled voters in 10 key states, Trump’s support among Black voters in Wisconsin stands at around 21 percent, while Harris’ stands at 77 percent. This is up from 2020, when Trump won just 8 percent of Black voters in the Badger State.

Nationwide, exit polls show Harris is trailing marginally behind her predecessors among Black voters, on 86 percent, down from Joe Biden’s 87 percent support among Black voters in 2020 and Hillary Clinton’s 88 percent.

Newsweek has contacted the Harris and Trump campaigns for comment via email.

Earlier polls had indicated that Kamala Harris was facing challenges in gaining strong support from Black voters, with an August analysis by Newsweek showing her polling at just 76 percent among this demographic.

In particular, Harris struggled to attract Black male voters—a trend confirmed by NBC’s exit poll, which reported that 78 percent of Black men supported her nationally. This marks a notable drop from 2020, when an estimated 90 percent of Black men cast their votes for Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, exit polls show that Harris is down among other key groups, including women and Latino voters.

Some 54 percent of female voters cast their ballots for Harris, according to exit polls. But Joe Biden won the support of 57 percent of women in 2020. That will be a blow to Harris, who has centered her campaign around defending reproductive rights after Roe v Wade was repealed by the Supreme Court in 2022.

Latino voters also appeared slightly less likely to support Harris than they were to back Biden four years ago, according to NBC exit poll data, which shows that Harris’ support among Hispanics stands at 53 percent, down from Biden’s 59 percent four years ago. Meanwhile, Trump’s vote share among Latinos stands at 45 percent, up from 38 points in 2020.

Harris’ declining vote share among Latinos was also partly driven by men, with 54 percent of Latino men backing Trump in this election, up from 36 percent in 2020.

It follows remarks by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden last month that sparked a firestorm of criticism and dominated news headlines.

At the rally, Hinchcliffe joked that Puerto Rico was a “floating island of garbage.” While Trump campaign adviser Danielle Alvarez clarified that Hinchcliffe’s controversial remarks did “not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” the joke was heavily denounced, with several GOP figures, including those in Florida—the state with the largest population of Puerto Ricans in the United States—condemning the remarks.

Following the remarks, Pennsylvania-based Latino radio host Victor Martinez told CNN it was “too late” for Trump the win back Puerto Rican voters.

But those remarks appear to have aged poorly, with Trump now set for a solid victory over Harris, with the former president surpassing the 270 vote threshold needed to win the election after the Associated Press called the crucial swing states North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for him. Michigan, Nevada and Arizona remain undeclared.

“This is a magnificent victory for the American people, that will allow us to make America great again,” Trump said in his victory speech in West Palm Beach in Florida on Wednesday. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”

“It’s a political victory that our country is never seen before, nothing like this,” he added. “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.”

Meanwhile, Trump also looks set to win the popular vote, with the former president currently on 51 percent of the vote to Harris’ 47 percent, according to CNN, defying polls. Forecaster Nate Silver had estimated Harris’ chances of winning the popular vote at over 70 percent.