Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) predicted a “record” turnout of Hispanic, black, Jewish, and union voters will turn out for Donald Trump.
There is less than a week left until Election Day, and the race could not be closer. A RealClearPolitics poll average from Wednesday morning showed Trump with a slight 0.4-point lead. Johnson spoke to the “energy” behind the Trump campaign on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime Tuesday, leading him to think that the former president will have a much larger lead over Vice President Kamala Harris.
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“It’s difficult to articulate, but there is real energy out there. We’re going to have a demographic shift in this electorate, Jesse, mark my word,” Johnson said. “We’re going to have a record number of Hispanic and Latino voters who come to the Republican Party, a record number of African American and black voters, a record number of Jewish voters, union workers, demographics that have not historically been with us in large numbers. They are there now.”
This prediction comes after the largest union in the nation the Teamsters opted to not endorse either candidate for president after a long tradition of endorsing the Democratic candidate.
Hispanic support for the Democratic Party has dwindled with each election cycle. Former President Barack Obama received 67% of the Hispanic vote in 2012, until former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton garnered 66%, down to President Joe Biden’s 59%. Salazar predicted that Trump will receive a larger share of the vote than the 38% he got in 2020.
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Harris is also struggling to rally traditionally Democratic voters. A New York Times-Siena College poll has 71% of black registered voters choosing Harris for president. That statistic would be a historically low majority of black voters to pick the Democratic presidential candidate, as Biden won 92% of the black vote.
In 2020, black voters made up 13.5% of all eligible voters and Latino voters made up 13.6%. Both groups are expected to make up over 14% in 2024, according to the Pew Research Center.