A major swing in these voter groups helped carry Trump to victory

During this election cycle, the U.S. political landscape experienced significant changes, particularly among the Hispanic and Native American communities. These groups, traditionally associated with the Democratic Party, are showing signs of shifting their allegiance to the Republican Party.

Tuesday, November 5th will go down in history as one of the world’s greatest political reversals. After years of politicized investigations and an entire bureaucratic state going after him, Donald Trump secured an electoral landslide and regained the White House.

By focusing on table issues that matter to all Americans, regardless of their identity, such as inflation, illegal immigration, foreign affairs, and public safety, Donald Trump is able to expand not only his electoral map but also his electorate. I was able to do it.

President Trump records higher margins than in 2020, especially among Hispanics and urban residents in the Northeast

Despite both Republicans and Democrats supporting the Hispanic and Native American vote, exit polls Tuesday night showed President Donald Trump receiving support from nearly 65% ​​of Native American voters and 45% of Hispanic voters. It turned out that he was receiving it.

However, these trends are not unique to the American Southwest. In North Carolina, Lumbee, once a staunch blue, shifted 36 points to the right in 2020, giving Donald Trump the key votes needed to win the state. In 2024, Donald Trump expanded his victory among tribal members, winning 63% of the vote in Lumbee-heavy Robeson County.

When studying this trend and understanding its impact on future election outcomes, it is important to consider why Native American and Latino voters migrated. The traditional cultural values ​​of both Hispanics and Native Americans, like many Americans, do not quite align with the woke left on this issue.

At the heart of Hispanic and Native American culture is a deep respect for the family unit, traditional gender roles, respect for elders, tradition, God, and the sacredness of life. These long-standing cultural values ​​align better with the Republican Party.

Another key issue for tribal and Hispanic voters, especially in New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada, is illegal immigration. Democrats mistakenly assumed that Hispanic voters would be sympathetic to open borders policies, but like all Americans, Hispanics want safer communities. Native Americans have seen the Biden-Harris administration roll out the red carpet and provide at least $150 billion in funding to non-citizens, while many lack access to running water and electricity.

President Trump’s candid immigration policies resonate with all Americans.

President Trump greets Vance at an election night watch party in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Evan Vucci)

The concept of the American Dream is also a powerful motivator for many Hispanic and Native American voters. Native Americans living on reservations, like many Hispanics who left communist countries like Cuba and Venezuela, experience the highest rates of poverty, destruction, and despair as a result of socialist policies. Like many Americans, we have a natural distrust of big government socialist policies promoted by far-left Democrats.

No amount of gaslighting by the Harris-Waltz campaign could erase the tangible economic gains made under President Trump. Native Americans and Hispanics, like all Americans, have hopes and aspirations for a better future, grounded in the belief that anyone can succeed through hard work and determination, regardless of their background. President Trump’s policies have reinforced this narrative and brought opportunity and progress.

As a Native American and Hispanic woman from Gallup, New Mexico, which is in the Indian heartland and is also a majority-Hispanic state, I believe in bridging the gap between the Republican Party and Native and Hispanic communities. I’ve been working for. For the first time in recent memory, Donald Trump’s Republican Party made it their mission to win the trust and support of these communities, and it worked.

CNN and MSNBC became reliable anti-Trump echo chambers during his first term. (Giovany Hernandez/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

It wasn’t enough to win states like New Mexico, but Donald Trump’s community outreach brought him within six points of victory, an improvement of five points from 2020.

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In the final week of the campaign, President Trump visited our state and spoke directly to our communities. Although New Mexico never made an appearance this term, he seized the opportunity to push further, improve his performance, and appeal to a newly mobilized voter base.

The foundations were laid, the presence was felt, and the movement began. Flipping reliably blue states will take time, but the Republican National Committee and the Trump Organization are working to improve outreach to Hispanics and Native Americans in rural areas that were once reliably blue. So we can start building stronger bridges to these communities.

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There is an increasingly real possibility that Hispanic and Native American communities will lean toward the Republican Party. Their traditional values, concerns about illegal immigration, economic aspirations, and eternal hopes for the American Dream create a complex interplay that influences their political choices.

These changes could have a permanent impact on American electoral politics and could position states like New Mexico, Nevada and California to be favorable for Republicans for years to come.

Elisa Martinez is both Hispanic and Native American. She is an enrolled tribal member of the Navajo Nation. She ran for the New Mexico State Senate in 2020. She is a former Trump surrogate (2020), an advisory board member for the Trump Presidential Coalition, and a former spokesperson for the Republican National Hispanic Congress.