Overview

• President-elect Donald Trump won slightly more than half of voters who owned pets, with strong support from dog owners, according to AP VoteCast.
• Democratic candidate Kamala Harris decisively won the votes of women who owned cats but not dogs, a smaller segment of the electorate.
• Dog owners, who made up a larger share of voters, leaned Republican, with about 6 in 10 male dog owners and half of female dog owners supporting Trump.
• The controversial 'childless cat ladies' remark by Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance briefly became a campaign issue but did not appear to significantly shift overall voting patterns.
• Neither Trump nor Harris own pets, raising questions about how future campaigns might engage with the large bloc of pet-owning voters.