Andrzej Duda: Over 80 percent of Polonia voted for Donald Trump. No such data

President Andrzej Duda on Saturday, March 1, flew with his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda for another visit to the United States. During the briefing before departure on the album of the Warsaw airport he spoke about the main goals of a five -day journey. He emphasized the importance of the meeting with Polonia in Chicago (it took place on Sunday, March 2) and the role of the Polish minority in the United States.

In this context, the president referred to the meeting with President Donald Trump, which took place on February 22 during the CPAC conservative convention at Oxon Hill, Maryland. “(…) With great satisfaction I will perform in front of my countrymen and thank them because I can say yes – they listened to our requests, which I was driving, actually throughout my presidency, and even earlier – that Poles in the United States in these political matters, especially election, try to speak with one voice,” he said.

He referred to the fact that Donald Trump thanked during his voices for Polish voters cast for him in the presidential election in November 2024. “If President Donald Trump from the grandstand, making a speech in fact to the Americans, because speaking at the CPAC conference, which the speech was broadcast, he said in fact to the entire United States, he emphasizes the value of Polish votes for his election victory, this is what we wanted to achieve – so that Poles have influenced the choice of the most important people in the United States. The president emphasized that over 80 percent of the Polish community and people with Polish origin, Polish roots, US citizens, American voters voted for him, for which he is very grateful“.

Thus, President Andrzej Duda repeated the thesis about the huge support by the Polonia given to the current president, he delivered by himself. The American president said exactly: “We are honored that President Duda from Poland joined us. He is a fantastic man and my great friend. We have 84 percent of Poles who voted for us, so you probably have to do something well, what?” – added the President of the USA (translated by ed.). However, are there data that would indicate such a huge support of American citizens of Polish origin (of which there are about 10 million) given to Donald Trump? And only Andrzej Duda repeated the number behind Donald Trump? We have already verified it in Zasta24now let's remind you.

Universal lists show that as many as nine million Americans admit to Polish roots. This is four times more than to Arab, at least three times more than Greek and almost twice as much as Chinese. Polonia accounts for almost 3 percent of the US population.

For American politicians, representatives of Polonia are a greedy morsel among voters also because they live in strategically important states. In addition to New York or Illinois, which are safe marigments of Democrats, Polish Americans focus on Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. And these are “Swing States”, i.e. the states in which voters often change their minds – once they can vote for a democrat, and four years can be in favor of a Republican. “This is a diverse group, but thanks to this it is attractive to both election staffs. The voices of Polish Americans are distributing about half and half” – – – He assessed in October 2024 In an interview with tvn24.pl prof. Michał Urbańczyk, lawyer and Americanist from the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, president of the Harlan Foundation.

At tvn24.pl, we published the data provided by the Think Tank Piast Institute from Michigan, which shows that during the presidential election in 2016 and 2020, the vast majority of representatives of Polonia voted for Democrats candidates. In 2016, 48 percent were in favor of Hillary Clinton. voting Americans of Polish origin, 46 percent voted for Donald Trump Four years later, Joe Biden chose 51 percent Poles living in the USA who went to the polls; In the case of Donald Trump it was 47 percent.

Currently We did not find any reliable sources talking about the support of the American Polonia in the presidential election in 2024. Of course, by voting, voters neither define their nationality anywhere, nor do they confirm belonging to a group of national minorities. We also did not find questions about this in two exit poll studies conducted by CNN and NBC stations.

In February 2025, Zakt Zast24 asked Rafał Michalski, an Americanist and publicist about the commentary. He also did not hear about any study among Polish voters done during the 2024 elections. He added that he doubted Trump in such great support by Polonia. But, interestingly, he noted that the results of the commission are still flowing.

We also turned to the aforementioned Think Thanku Piast Institute. For years he has been measuring the support of Polonia in the election, but only a poll. “We do not yet have Polish diaspora data on the last elections. I know that nobody conducts such research, “said Zasta24 Dr. Dominik Stecuła, who also works at the University of Ohio. He also doubted Trump's 84 percent of the Polish community. Because – as he emphasizes – it is contrary to the trends he knows.” Of course, there would be such a possibility in a specific, specific place, but even such data is not known to me ” very unbelievable ” – he concluded.

President Andrzej Duda also repeated the data for Donald Trump for which he has no confirmation.

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