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T.W. Shannon, the 2024 campaign adviser to Black Men for Trump and Oklahoma’s first African-American speaker of the House, assessed that black voters were a critical pillar of the so-called ...
Black voters made up 29% of the electorate, and Latinos made up about 7%, a significant increase compared to previous years. Biden performed well across the board; he won independent voters by 9 points, and was able to pick up 6% of Republican voters in the state. Biden also won young voters in Georgia, sweeping each age group under 50 years old.
In the 2020 election, Trump won just 8% of Black voters and 32% of Latinos. For months, Trump and his allies pinned part of their strategy on peeling men of color away from the Democratic coalition.
Most Black voters, 63%, plan to support Harris, compared with 13% for Trump, according to the new NAACP survey, which interviewed 1,000 registered Black voters across the U.S. from Aug. 6 to Aug. 12.
Finally, there was an age gap; Biden won young voters by double-digit margins, whereas Trump performed strongly with middle-aged voters; senior citizens were more even, breaking slightly for Trump. [214] Within minority blocs, Biden fared well, as he won black voters by 87 points, and won Latinos by 42 points.
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
Vice President Kamala Harris underperformed with Black male voters, a fifth who cast their votes for Donald Trump. Now, they are being blamed. Opinion: Trump received 21% of Black men's votes.
One factor impacting voter turnout of Black Americans is that, as of the 2000 election, 13% of Black American males are reportedly ineligible to vote nationwide because of a prior felony conviction; in certain states – Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi – disenfranchisement rates for Black American males in the 2000 election were around 30% ...