Do 2020 election results suggest the economy was a primary driver of Latino support for Trump?
A summer 2020 poll found 80% of Latino voters said the economy was "very important" to their vote. Commentators and political scientists saw ample evidence of that in the November results.
Based on preliminary exit polls, about 32% of Latinos nationwide voted for Trump. In Florida Trump won 45% of the Latino vote, and Trump won as much as 47% of the Latino vote in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.
A Colorado political scientist wrote in Fortune that "the economic downturn has hit Hispanic workers particularly hard, with men and especially women experiencing higher levels of unemployment." A Northwestern historian noted that Trump “clearly stated that he had answers to their problems, would help them find jobs, and would grow the economy." A local organizer in Starr County in Texas told the Los Angeles Times that "the top reason voters told him they chose Trump was the economy."
