As you just heard, President-elect Donald Trump made important and surprising inroads with some key voting groups, chief among them Hispanic voters.

Representative Maria Salazar is a Republican from Florida, and she joins us now.

Congresswoman, welcome back to the NewsHour. Let's just begin with your reaction to President-elect Trump's win, not just that he won, but how he won,

making larger inroads with Latino voters, winning a larger percentage than previous Republican

candidate.

It's also being the first Republican candidate to win your district, Miami-Dade since 1988.

What part of his message do you think resonated most strongly with those voters?

Well, thank you for the opportunity.

I agree with you.

This is a realignment.

It's a realization by the Hispanics that the new home is the Republican Party.

We're talking about that I'm sure that we don't have the final numbers, but everything

indicates that we, the Hispanic community in the final numbers, but everything indicates that we, the Hispanic

community in this, in the United States, may put have, may put him over the top when it comes

to, for instance, Pennsylvania, Allentown, Hazeltown, more than 50% of Hispanics voted

for Trump. Michigan, 60% of Hispanics went for Trump. Texas, the most

Hispanic county called Stark County that has voted Democrat for the last 130 years, 20%

for Trump. And where I'm sitting, as you mentioned, Miami-Day County that has been a blue

county for the last 30 years

where District 27 is at that I represent in Congress, more than 10 points went for Trump.

It's a big story. It's a realization that the Dems left us is not that we left the Democratic Party.

And Congresswoman, what is it about the message that you think resonates most strongly with those voters?

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