Democrats swept both chambers of Congress during the midterm elections by much larger margins than most polls showed, effectively making President Donald Trump a lame duck in the last two years of his second term.
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Trump → sweep → term
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Exit polls also show signs that Trump’s inroads with minority voters during the 2024 presidential election were erased or weakened in 2026 as frustration over the economy and high costs of living grew.
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frustration → show → living
Here’s how some demographics shifted, helping enable Tuesday night’s blue tsunami.
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demographics → ’ → tsunami
Latino male voters
Trump rode a wave of discontent to victory in 2024 in part because Latino men were dissatisfied with former President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy.
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men → ride → economy
Two years later, Latinos flipped back toward Democrats.
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Latinos → flip → Democrats
According to NBC’s exit poll, Latino men nationwide favored Democrats by 56% to 41% for Republicans.
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men → accord → Republicans
In 2024, NBC’s exit poll showed Latino men favoring Republicans 54% to Democrats 44%.
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men → show → Democrats
CNN’s exit polls showed Latino men voting for Texas Senate-elect James Talarico (D) at 61%, compared to 39% for state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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men → show → Paxton
Latino men also favored Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa (D) at 57% over Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), who won 42% of their support.
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who → favor → support
In North Carolina, Latino men favored Gov.-elect Roy Cooper 68% to Republican Michael Whatley’s 26%, according to CNN’s exit poll.
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men → favor → poll
In Georgia, 66% of Latino men backed Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) in his successful bid against Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) who pulled in 34% support.
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who → back → support
Like Latino men, Trump also made inroads with black men in 2024.
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Trump → make → 2024
But their support for the GOP seems to have shifted in 2026.
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support → seem → 2026
According to NBC’s exit polls, 85% of black men favored Democrats nationally while 13% backed Republicans.
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% → accord → Republicans
In Texas, 88% of black men supported Talarico over Paxton’s 10%, while 87% of black men supported Hinojosa, compared to the 11% that favored Abbott, according to CNN’s exit polls.
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that → support → polls
Black men backed Cooper in North Carolina at 89%, while Whatley drew only 10%, according to CNN.
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Whatley → back → CNN
In Ohio, 86% of black men backed Democratic Gov.-elect Amy Acton over the 10% who supported Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, according to CNN.
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who → back → CNN
They also helped boost Sen.-elect Sherrod Brown (D) at 85% over Sen. John Husted (R-OH) at 9%.
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They → help → %
In Georgia, Ossoff won 91% of black men in contrast to the 9% who backed Collins.
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who → win → Collins
The 2024 race saw Trump court Arab Americans in Michigan over their anger at Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris’s support of Israel in its battle against Hamas.
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Trump → see → Hamas
But Senate-elect Abdul el Sayed prevailed in the face of GOP attacks over his family’s alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood by, in part, relying on the support of Arab Americans.
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Sayed → prevail → Americans
El Sayed pulled in 73% of the Arab American vote while former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers won just 27% of their support, according to CNN.
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Rogers → pull → CNN
Arab Americans also backed Democratic Gov.-elect Jocelyn Benson at 71%, while Rep. John James (R-MI) drew 28%, CNN exit polls showed.
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polls → back → %
Jewish voters
Jewish voters have been at odds with supporting Democrats as more socialists and progressives pushed for the U.S. to cease financially backing Israel and accused the nation of genocide against Palestinians.
But NBC’s exit polls showed Jewish voters continued to back Democrats nationally at 67% support, while 32% supported Republicans.
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% → support → Republicans
An exit poll of 482 Jewish early voters in Michigan, by the Jewish Majority, an advocacy group led by an AIPAC veteran, showed 57% of Jewish early voters cast a ballot for el Sayed, while 78% supported Benson, a 21-percentage-point gap.
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% → lead → gap
Rogers received 36% of the Jewish early vote.
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Rogers → receive → vote
The poll also showed that one-third of voters who supported Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in 2024 did not support el Sayed.
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who → show → Sayed
On a national level, the GOP won 55% of the white male vote in contrast to the 43% who supported Democrats.
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who → win → Democrats
But the GOP also lost the white female vote with 47%, while Democrats won 51% of white women, according to NBC’s exit poll.
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Democrats → lose → poll
That pattern was replicated in several battleground states that helped Democrats improbably flip the Senate in red-leaning states.
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Democrats → replicate → states
White women backed Acton in Ohio at 52% while Ramaswamy won 45% of their vote.
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Ramaswamy → back → vote
White men backed Ramaswamy at 52% while Acton won 45% of their votes, according to CNN.
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Acton → back → CNN
Brown also won the white women vote at 50%, while Husted won the white male vote at 54%.
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Husted → win → %
In Kansas, Democratic Senate-elect Adam Hamilton won the white women vote at 53%, while Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) won the white male vote at 50%, CNN showed.
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CNN → win → %
Cooper in North Carolina won the white women vote at 55%, while Whatley won the white men vote at 55%.
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Whatley → win → %
In Iowa, Democratic Senate-elect Josh Turek won the white women vote at 55% while Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) won white male voters at 53%, CNN showed.
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CNN → win → %
Some notable exceptions are that Sen. Darline Graham won both the white male vote at 58% and the white women vote at 54%, according to CNN, but still lost to Democratic Senate-elect Annie Andrews.
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Graham → win → Andrews
Ossoff also lost both the white male (63%) and white female votes (56%) and still won reelection.
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Ossoff → lose → reelection
Talarico won both the white male (50%) and female vote (58%) over Paxton.
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Talarico → win → Paxton
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