In December 2025, the conservative Manhattan Institute released a report examining the coalition that had come together a year earlier to elect President Donald Trump to a second term. It found that today's Republican coalition is composed of two very distinct kinds of voters.
"The majority segment—longstanding Republicans who have backed the party for many years—are consistently conservative on economic, foreign policy, and social issues," the authors explain. "But a sizeable minority—new entrants to the GOP coalition over the past two presidential cycles—look markedly different."
