Exit polls show President-elect Donald Trump won 46% of the Latino vote on Election Day, the largest share for a Republican presidential contender in more than 40 years, Axios reported.

An exit poll conducted by Edison Research shows that 55% of Latino men voted for Trump, while 38% of Latina women said the same. Former President George W. Bush received the next-highest level of Latino support for a GOP presidential candidate in 2004, with 44%. The late President Ronald Reagan won 37% of the Latino vote in 1980 and 34% in 1984.

“Latinos were saying, ‘I don’t care what Trump says. I want to be able to pay the bills. I want to be able to send my kid to college. I want to pay the mortgage, to afford a new car,'” Jeronimo Cortina, a professor of political science at The University of Houston, told Axios.

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