A new exit poll of battleground state voters found that President-elect Trump’s economic message broke through demographic barriers, building a national coalition that Vice President Harris was unable to match.
The poll, commissioned by Way to Win, a pro-Democratic electoral strategy group, oversampled Black, Latino and Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“I don't know if it's surprising, but I think that it's strong, is just how much concerns about the economy really transcended racial, educational and demographic lines in this election to really become the decisive factor, that there was a real strength in how Trump voters named the economy and immigration as driving their choice, whereas on Harris’s side there were a lot of different kind of answers, and it wasn't as clear cut,” said Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, vice president of Way to Win.
And the poll showed Trump — and his rhetoric — were central to most voters’ decision process, whether they voted for him or not.
According to the survey, Trump was the primary reason that Harris-voting respondents named as the decisive factor in their choice. That answer was the same both among all Harris voters and among persuadable voters who eventually picked her.
The top deciding issue for Trump voters........