Why Democrats are losing minority voters
By
Washington Examiner
March 16, 2024 12:00 am
When President Joe Biden narrowly defeated Donald Trump in 2020, he carried 87% of the black vote and 65% of the Latino vote while losing white voters 41% to 58%.
Now, multiple recent polls show Biden’s support among minority voters collapsing, including just 63% of black people in the most recent USA Today poll and 66% in the latest New York Times poll. Both polls also show Trump outright winning Latinos, including by a 46% to 40% advantage for Trump in the New York Times poll.
As much as it might be tempting to blame these numbers on Biden’s age or Trump’s celebrity appeal, Gallup numbers that track party identification show similar, if not yet as dramatic, shifts among black people and Latinos away from Democrats and toward Republicans.
Just four years ago in 2020, an overwhelming 77% of black people told Gallup that they considered themselves Democrats compared to just 11% who said Republican. That margin has slipped to 66% Democrat and 19% Republican today. Among Latinos, in 2020, 57% said they were Democrats compared to 29% who said they were Republican. Now, just 47% of Latinos consider themselves Democrats, and the percent saying they were Republican has risen to 35%.
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