Posted on 12/30/2022 10:11:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
Black voters have been a steady foundation for Democratic candidates for decades, but that support appeared to show a few cracks in this year’s elections.
Republican candidates were backed by 14% of black voters, compared with 8% in the last midterm elections four years ago, according to AP VoteCast, an extensive national survey of the electorate.
In Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp more than doubled his support among black voters to 12% in 2022 compared with 5% four years ago, according to VoteCast. He defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams both times.
If that boost can be sustained, Democrats could face headwinds in 2024 in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, where presidential and Senate races are typically decided by narrow margins and turning out black voters is a big part of Democrats’ political strategy.
It’s too early to tell whether the 2022 survey data reflects the beginnings of a longer-term drift of black voters toward the GOP or whether the modest Republican gains from an overwhelmingly Democratic group will hold during a presidential year. Former President Donald Trump, who has announced his third run for the presidency, received support from just 8% of black voters in 2020, according to VoteCast. …
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It's Trump. He's toxic to independent and swing voters and so were his hand-picked candidates.
I was surprised to see exit polling results that showed Democrats doing better with Hispanic males than with Hispanic females.
No; they still prefer the fake vote.
Fake news.
Opus?
Nope. Read my tagline. Trump is a three-time loser.
That’s a lie. Fraud denial is anathema to conservatism.
Opus?
Then maybe we should stop supporting the one politician, along with his handpicked candidates, who seems incapable of preventing the Democrats from stealing his victories?
Other Republicans hold on to theirs.
Blacks like Trump and MAGA. As soon as the GOP goes back to it’s “old ways” the new black votes will vanish.
Stop with the gaslighting you GD fool.
I predict that you will be voting for Trump in Nov. ‘24.
Get used to the idea.
Where else are you going to go?
Doubling down on fraud denial is doubly antithetical to conservatism.
Opus?
They’ve been making them vanish via fraud. The Uniparty is all about racism and the exacerbation thereof.
Is 68 your IQ?
Are other folks making you question your narrative or sanity? If not, it isn’t gaslighting. I don’t think folks grasp what it means. https://www.verywellmind.com/is-someone-gaslighting-you-4147470
If Republican primary voters are stupid enough to nominate Trump, of course I'll vote for him. He's better than any Democrat. I'll never deny that.
And then I'll watch as he loses every state he lost in '20, with the addition of North Carolina and possibly even Texas.
And I'll be on Free Republic posting, "I told you this would happen!" repeatedly on the election live threads.
Quadrupling down on fraud denial is quadruply (sic) antithetical to conservatism. Particularly when the implied claim that our republic is still intact is included. That is filthy Uniparty propaganda.
Opus?
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