The Young Voters and Minorities Who Backed Trump in 2024 Hate Him Now | Right Now With Perry Bacon

Right Now With Perry Bacon · Nov 11, 2025 · 30m

Voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos were much more supportive of President Trump in 2024 than they were of past Republican presidential candidates. But exit polls conducted last week of the races in New Jersey and Virginia show that Republican candidates didn’t match Trump’s performance. The GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs. Michael Podhorzer, former political director of the AFL-CIO and now a prominent writer on Substack, argues that the idea that Trump had built some kind of durable multiracial working-class coalition was always overstated. He says both the…