Recent Republican gains among New Jersey’s Latino and Hispanic voters evaporated in this year’s gubernatorial race, helping propel Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill to victory and sending a major warning signal to the GOP ahead of next year’s midterms.

Hispanic and Latino voters in the Garden State favored Sherrill by more than two-to-one (68% to 31%), according to an exit poll commissioned by NBC News .

By contrast, President Trump only lost the nationwide demographic by five percentage points (51% to 46%) to Vice President Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election, with some Hispanic-majority towns in New Jersey shifting toward the Republican ticket by up to 33 percentage points.

New Jersey municipalities that are 60%+ Hispanic where we currently have results: pic.twitter.com/

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