According to early exit polls, Catholic voters supported Trump over Harris by a nearly 20-point margin. In 2020, Catholics backed Biden, who would become America’s second Catholic president, by a five-point margin. In both years, more than 1 in 5 voters were Catholic.

The dust is settling on the 2024 election after President-elect Trump’s unexpectedly comfortable victory. Now both parties are looking to the exit polls for lessons as to how Trump won, why Vice President Harris lost — and how the trends might affect future elections.

Claiming superior leadership and casting himself as the true agent of change were keys to Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, per ABC News exit poll results. In a list of four candidate qualities,

Voters were disappointed about the economy and their finances, all of which fueled a desire for change. And Trump cleaned up with "change" voters.

Democrat Kamala Harris faced Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday in the U.S. presidential election, with the two candidates vying to attract support after staking positions on issues including abortion,

The large-scale studies of voters now include phone calls to early and mail voters as well as interviews outside polling places on Election Day.

Trump not only won in the Electoral College, but he won so big that he expanded his coalition with historic demographic shifts.