The point that many on here keep forgetting is that 70% of this country felt it was on the wrong track and trump didn't win with just the conservative vote. He pulled a big number of the latino vote and the biggest number of the black vote (maybe in decades). Liberals are afraid and don't want to talk but there are more centrist democrats that don't feel that way because they are represented in that 70% number as well.
Unless you are talking about female sports and then all don't deserve equal treatment. Biological females deserve unfair treatment.
Um, what?
Black support reduced by 1 point. Turnout was down however
Yeah, I've read that Trump got almost exactly the same share of the black vote that he got in 2020, although as you said black voter turnout was down. So all these stories of black voters switching to Trump turned out to be false. The real issue was the huge shift of Hispanic males to the Republicans, which definitely hurt.
He increased his number by 1% nationally if I’m understanding correctly. The numbers were more significant in NC.
Maybe, but the national number is still pretty telling after all the breathless news media stories about how black men were moving in large numbers towards Trump. The real problem is the defection of Hispanic men to Republicans. That needs to be resolved by 2026 if the Democrats hope to do well in the midterms.
Probably has more to do with Harris having over 12 million less votes than Biden.
Agree. I don’t think we should kid to ourselves about Black men though. If there is drift or apathy, it needs to be addressed now rather than later. We can’t win without Hispanics. If Black men start to drift towards Republicans as well, the road back to any kind of power with be even harder.
Gen Z males are a problem as well. They've been compromised and radicalized by online bro culture. I saw tonight that a new trend among this demo is responding to girls'/women's TikToks with "your body, my choice" and similar comments. Really disgusting stuff.
Unfortunately, it seems as if the more equality and career and personal success women have, the more threatened and embittered and resentful some men become. When women were still mostly limited to being housewives and raising kids at home, mediocre (or worse) men no doubt found it easier to find a wife, but now that women have more freedom and options guys like them blame their failures in life on successful career women. And it's just getting worse, as the share of college students who are women increases and more men get left behind. And yeah, it's ugly out there - I've read that the "your body, my choice" phrase has been popular across social media since the election. We're just living in a dark, dark time.
Thats how the right wing online media pipeline works. Y’all remember Gamer Gate?
Is that 70% broken into who thinks is taking the country the wrong way? That would be meaningful. This could mean that more want the country to move to the left that the right. Not likely with the vote but it makes that single number useless.
About 20% of Americans just voted for Trump (~70 mill out of 360 mill). He got about 28% of the voter eligible population (265 mill).
Not wanting that sort of thing pushed down your throat versus trying to “own the libs” are two different things.
By virtue of the fact that Trump is going to be the face of the Republican Party for well over a decade, they clearly have their own issues.