WASHINGTON – With the presidential seat filled some Americans are still reeling from the results.

In some areas it came as no shock that now President-elect Donald Trump won, including the full red state of Oklahoma, but there are a few turns that maybe the Harris campaign should have anticipated.

“Probably the most stark shift was among Hispanics which was a margin that Democrats used to carry by 20% or more,” said Charles Finocchiaro, associate director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma.

The Hispanic vote was one that the Democrats had held pretty tight. But it was not the only demographic that was lost.

Emily Stacey, a Rose State College political science professor and social science moderator, said, “he did better with Latinos…Latino men specifically… black men specifically and the youth and young men specifically as well.”

And the Democatic Party had setback from the beginning with the late switch of their candidate pick after President Biden dropped out, but also missing the mark on what some voters had on their minds.

“They are voting based on their pocketbook. They are voting on a gallon of gas costing more than it did a year ago,” Stacey said.

And when people are unhappy within their own country, changes are more than likely to come.

“A lot of consumers don’t feel good about the state of the economy about the direction the economy is heading and when that’s the case… thumb on the scale… the incumbent party is likely to lose and we’ve seen that in the last three elections and just flipping control,” Finocchiaro said.

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