 Since 2000, Nueces County has voted for every Republican presidential candidate, with only George W. Bush in 2004 having carried it by a double digit margin, and his 56.8% of the vote is also the highest for any Republican in the county's history.In 2016, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the county 48.6% to 47.1%, or 1,568 votes, the closest race since 1956.The results of the 2016 election made Nueces County the southernmost county in the entire country to have been won by Donald Trump.