A major swing in these voter groups helped Trump to victory

During this election cycle, the political landscape in the United States has witnessed significant transformations, especially among Latinx and Native American communities. Traditionally associated with the Democratic Party, these groups have shown signs of shifting their allegiance to the Republican Party.

Tuesday, November 5, will go down in history as one of the largest in the world political comebacks. After years of politicized investigations and the entire bureaucratic state coming after him, Donald Trump pulled off an electoral landslide and won back the White House.

By focusing on the kitchen table issues that matter to all Americans, regardless of identity – inflation, illegal immigration, foreign affairs, public safety – Donald Trump was able to expand not only his electoral map, but also his electorate.

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Despite both Republicans and Democrats seeking the votes of Latin American and Native American voters, exit polls Tuesday night’s results showed President Donald Trump receiving support from nearly 65% ​​of Native American voters and 45% of Hispanic voters.

However, these trends are not just unique to the American Southwest. In North Carolina, the once loyally blue Lumbee moved 36 points to the right in 2020, giving Donald Trump critical votes needed to win the state. In 2024, Donald Trump extended his victory among tribal members, receiving 63% of the vote in Lumbee-heavy Robeson County.

In studying this trend and understanding the impact it will have on election outcomes in the future, it is important to look at why Native American and Latino voters have changed. On these issues, the traditional cultural values ​​of both Hispanics and Native Americans, like many Americans, simply do not align with those of the woke left.

At the core of both Spanish and Native American cultures lies a deep respect for the family unit, traditional gender roles, respect for elders, tradition, God and the sanctity of life. These long-standing cultural values ​​are more aligned with the Republican Party.

Another major issue, especially for tribes and Hispanic voters in New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada, is illegal immigration. While Democrats wrongly assumed that Hispanic voters would support their open-borders immigration policies, Hispanics, like all Americans, also want safer communities. Native Americans witnessed the Biden-Harris administration roll out the red carpet and (x amount of funding) for non-citizens, while many of our own Native American population do not have access to running water or electricity.

President Trump’s straightforward immigration policy resonates with all Americans.

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

No amount of gaslighting from the Harris-Walz campaign could erase the tangible economic results achieved under the Trump presidency. Native Americans and Hispanics, like all Americans, have hopes and aspirations for a better future, rooted in the belief that everyone, regardless of background, can succeed through hard work and determination. Trump’s policies emphasized this narrative and created opportunity and progress.

As a Native American and Hispanic woman from the heart of Gallup Indian Country, New Mexico – which is also in a Hispanic-majority state, I have worked to bridge the gap between the Republican Party and indigenous and Hispanic communities. For the first time in recent history, Donald Trump’s Republican Party has made it its mission to earn the trust and support of these communities, and it has paid off.

While it wasn’t enough to win in a state like New Mexico, Donald Trump’s commitment to our community brought him within six points of victory, a five-point improvement from 2020.

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In the final week of his campaign, President Trump came to our state and spoke directly to our communities. New Mexico was never a factor this cycle, but he seized the opportunity to make inroads and moved the needle closer, improving his performance and appealing to a new group of mobilized voters.

The foundation has been laid, a presence has been felt and a movement has begun. Turning around a reliably blue state takes time, and now that the Republican National Committee and the Trump apparatus are committed to improving outreach to rural Hispanic and Native American communities that were once reliably blue, we can begin to build a stronger bridge to these communities to build.

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The potential for Latinx and Native American communities to lean toward the Republican Party is becoming increasingly plausible. Their traditional values, concerns about illegal immigration, economic ambitions and continued hope for the American Dream create a complex interplay that influences their political choices.

These shifts have the potential to permanently impact American electoral politics and put states like New Mexico, Nevada and California in play for the Republicans in the coming years.

Elisa Martinez is both Spanish and Native American. She is an enrolled tribal member of the Navajo Nation. She ran for U.S. Senate in New Mexico in 2020. She is a former Trump surrogate (2020), a member of the advisory board of the Native Americans for Trump coalition and a former press secretary of the Republican National Latin American Assembly.