Latino voters reverse last year's swing toward Trump in New Jersey, Virginia

Democrats won big last week with Latino voters on Election Day, indicating a potential reversal of the gains Donald Trump made among the group in last year’s presidential election. The effects were perhaps best seen in New Jersey, a state with a Hispanic population of nearly 22% , when counties with large Latino populations moved to the left following a rightward shift in 2024. In Hudson County, which has a Hispanic population of 41%, Democrat Mikie Sherrill beat Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 50 points, compared to then-Vice President Kamala Harris' 28-point margin of victory over Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. And in Passaic County, where Latinos make up 43% of the total population, Sherril beat Ciattarelli by nearly 15 points; in the 2024 presidential election, Trump wo