Blacks and Jews: The Two Groups That Backed Harris
A blueprint for renewed cooperation
In the 2020 election, nearly 70% of Latinos backed Biden. Over 70% of Muslims voted for Biden.
Biden beat Trump by over 15% among women.
Biden soundly defeated Trump among voters under 44, and even tied Trump in voters in the 45–65 age range.
Biden won the suburban vote by a couple points.
Other than white men, Biden won nearly every demographic in 2020.
But in 2024, things shifted dramatically. Trump won or massively cut into nearly every group except two.
As we’ve all learned by now, Trump won 46% of the Latino vote, compared to under 35% in 2020. This despite Trump’s repeated calls for mass deportations of their relatives and falsely claiming Mexicans are in many cases “criminals, drug dealers and rapists.” And despite commenting that immigrants “poison the blood” of this country.
In swing states like Michigan, Trump won a staggering 58% of Latino voters, compared to just 39% for Harris, according to an Edison poll.
At a Denver Nuggets game just before the election, a Black friend and I shook our heads in disappointment when we noticed several young Latino men wearing MAGA hats. It’s anecdotal…
