US election 2024 results: How Black voters shifted towards Trump

The Republican candidate almost doubles his support among Black voters compared with 2020, exit polls suggest. How and where? We break it down.

When Kamala Harris was confirmed as the Democratic candidate for the United States presidential election in August, she had hoped to become the first woman, first Indian American and the second African American to make it to the White House.

Harris was expected to reverse a troubling trend for Democrats and win back Black voters, who had been drifting away from the party.

Since then, her campaign has targeted Black voters in battleground states, often with the support of the country’s first Black president, Barack Obama.

Yet as results in Tuesday’s election trickled in, a stunning fact emerged: It is Trump, not Harris, who gained support among Black voters compared with the 2020 election, as the former president won the White House.

So how much support did Trump secure from Black voters? And how did he do it?