5 takeaways from exit polling of the 2022 midterms

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, November 10, 2022

Voters cast their ballots in the voting booths at the early vote location at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center in North Charleston, South Carolina, on October 16, 2020. | LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images

5. Republicans narrowly improved with Latino voters.

Exit polling reveals 39% of Latino voters supported Republican candidates in the 2022 election. Democrats won a majority of the demographic group, which comprised 11% of the electorate this year, with 60% of the vote.

Compared to 2020, Republicans improved slightly on their performance with Latinos. In 2020, Democrats won 65% of the Latino vote compared to Republicans’ 32%. This amounts to a 12-point swing, with Latinos’ net support for Democrats dropping from 33% two years ago to 21% this year.

Republicans’ improvement with Latino voters manifested in Florida, where Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio cruised to re-election. The two candidates won the heavily Hispanic counties of Miami-Dade and Osceola, which normally vote Democratic in statewide elections.

Heading into the midterm elections, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, insisted in a previous interview with The Christian Post that Latino voters were “abandoning the Democratic Party or leftist ideologies” because of their “commitment to life,” referring to their opposition to abortion. Rodriguez explained that Latino opposition to abortion “stems primarily out of our faith.”