While a majority of black and Latino voters turned out for Vice President Kamala Harris in this election,

President-elect Donald Trump made significant inroads with both groups, especially Latinos,

to help him secure the White House. Voter surveys from the Associated Press show that the president-elect

won 43 percent of the overall Latino vote. That's an eight-point increase from 2020. And this year,

48% of Latino men voted for Mr. Trump. For a closer look, I spoke yesterday with Pastor Samuel

Rodriguez. He's president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and a former

advisor to presidents George W. Bush

and Barack Obama.

Pastor Rodriguez, welcome back to the News Hour.

Thank you for having me.

Well before the election, you predicted that Latinos and Latino evangelicals in particular

would vote for Donald Trump.

Why?

I mean, understanding that no group is a monolith, his support among

Hispanic voters is up eight points from 2020. What accounts for it? I really do believe that what

we experienced in this election was the official breaking up of the Latino community with the Democratic

Party. It doesn't have to be a permanent breakup, by the way. It would require a bit of humility

on behalf of the Democratic operatives. The primary reason I do believe has to do with faith.

Latinos are becoming more and more evangelical every single year. That evangelical ethos will

prompt them to embrace what you would deem as conservative values, what we deem as biblically

substantiated troops. So Latinos are becoming more conservative because of their faith.

But number two, I do believe Latinos are becoming more conservative, or at least voting more

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