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(2,115 posts)Black and Hispanic men especially.
Black men supported Hillary by a margin of +69 points.
Black men supported Harris by a margin of +56 points.
That's a swing of thirteen points since 2016.
Are we suggesting Black men are racist against Black women? After all, they supported Hillary by a large number. So, it can't be a sex issue (in fact, Hillary did +9 points better than Biden among Black men.
Hispanic men supported Hillary by a margin of +31 points.
Harris actually lost Hispanic men by a margin of ten-points.
In 2020, Biden was +23 with Hispanic men. So, like with Black men, he did worse than Hillary.
White men?
In 2016, they supported Trump by a margin of +31 vs Hillary.
In 2024, they supported Trump by a margin of +22 vs Harris.
That means Harris did nine-points better than Hillary vs Trump.
She did one-point better vs Trump than Biden did (Trump was +23 vs Biden in 2020).
Harris lost because she lost ground among Black and Hispanic voters.
She did worse than Hillary among Hispanic women too.
Hillary was +44 with Hispanic women in 2016.
Harris was only +19.
That's a huge difference.
Even Black women supported Hillary by a wider margin than Harris, albeit the shift was marginal.
In 2016, she won Black women by a margin of +90.
Harris won Black women by a margin of +85.
That five-point shift is still significant, tho.
In the end, white people shifted more toward Harris. People of color shifted more away from Harris.
I'm not sure it's smart to call Black men sexist (especially when they voted more for Hillary in 2016 than Biden) or Hispanic women racist. That is not going to resonate with these groups and it certainly won't win 'em back.
Data:
2016: https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls
2020: https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results
2024: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0
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