Why the Election Could Come Down to Black Men in a Few States

Time ^ | November 4, 2024 | Philip Eliott

[MinorityRepublican]

Raphael Warnock arrived on Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion in his SUV, rocking blue jeans and a muted olive vest, ready to make his pitch to the predominantly Black audience. The Democratic Senator from Georgia is among a group of high-profile advocates for Kamala Harris working nonstop to turnout the Black male voters they fear could cost her the election—not so much by backing Donald Trump, but by not bothering to vote at all.

“We cannot afford to stay home. That’s the real threat,” Warnock said in a storefront hastily remade into a field office for Democrats. “There’s no such thing as not voting. If you do anything other than vote for Kamala Harris, then you are putting that man closer to the White House, and we cannot afford for him to be back in.”

Warnock’s words were similar to his message earlier that day at a magnet school with a student body that is three-quarters Black and counts Diana Ross as an alumna. It’s the same warning he’s delivering daily up until Election Day in swing states, on talk radio, on TV, at HBCU homecoming games, everywhere, really—in hopes that the outcome isn’t dictated by a lack of enthusiasm from low-propensity voters, especially Black men.

“I don’t believe that there are going to be huge swaths of Black men voting for Donald Trump. I don’t believe it,” Warnock told a crowd at a downtown high school. “We’re not a monolith, like anybody else. There will be some; there have always been some.”

Low-propensity voters—those who are registered but far-from-guaranteed to show up on Election Day—have become the entire prize for Democrats at this late hour. Harris’ advisers are making the strategic bet that her hardcore supporters have already banked their votes early where possible...

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[traderrob6]

They wish.

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🔴 AZ: Trump+5.1
🔴 NV: Trump+3.1
🔴 NC: Trump+2.1
🔴 GA: Trump+1.6
🔴 MI: Trump+1.5
🔴 PA: Trump+1
🔴 WI: Trump+0.9
🔵 MN: Harris+2
🔵 VA: Harris+5.4

[quantim]

Hey Time rag, FOAD. I learned in 2nd grade back in the 50’s that a ‘sum’ is a total of all the parts, not most of them.

[frank ballenger]

One election day the late Rush Limbaugh optimistically said he believed he saw determination on the faces of black people voting near him at the polling place, and his prediction of a big desertion from the kneejerk Dem voting was taking place.
I knew he was wrong. Just as I thought the vote for black people was something like 94% Dem as usual.

[I-ambush]

Hmm…I thought the race was going to come down to the Amish or to white males. Or to blue collar workers. Honestly, when the electorate is so divided, there is a myriad ways to analyze the vote.

[MinorityRepublican]

Hmm…I thought the race was going to come down to the Amish or to white males. Or to blue collar workers. Honestly, when the electorate is so divided, there is a myriad ways to analyze the vote.

Joe Biden did get some help. But he was able to maintain Obama coalition in 2020.

Hillary couldn't. And it looks like Kamala is going to fail doing that.