Black voters as the biggest bloc….
But Brown and Yellow voters also….
They NEED them to come out and actually vote…..
Some of these voters feel they ARE taken for granted…
Some of them won’t vote….
Most WILL come out and support the only party they can identify with anyways….
While some demonise minorities?
They ARE the growth for America these days…
For a Democratic Party on the defensive as Election Day nears, there is perhaps no more important group of voters than Black Americans. Black women and Black men have consistently supported Democratic candidates in higher percentages than any other group of voters in the country. They are responsible for turning Georgia blue two years ago, helping elect President Biden and two Democratic senators, one of whom, Raphael G. Warnock, is in a neck-and-neck race for reelection this fall.
Given that the political fundamentals of this midterm election favor Republicans, Black voters are more crucial than ever for the Democrats. One overriding question is whether they will turn out in numbers big enough to offset those GOP advantages. Regardless, many Black voters fear a future in which overt racism becomes more apparent. They have concerns about whether Biden, who is well liked, has the strength to unify the country around a more positive vision. And there are questions about whether the Democratic Party speaks to Black voters as effectively as needed.
The choice for Black Americans is not just a question of which partyholds power in Washington and in the states, but how that power is used, and whether they believe it moves the country forward or backward. For many Black Americans, the six years since Trump was elected president have been especially fraught, a time of some economic advances but also, as Martin described, one of apprehension about whether racial divisions can be overcome.
In 2020, about 9 in 10 Black voters nationally supported Biden over Trump, according to post-election analyses. Meanwhile, majorities of White men and White women supported Trump. In Georgia, exit polls showed that more than 9 in 10 Black voters backed Biden in an election in which the Democratic nominee prevailed by just 11,779 votes out of 5 million cast.
Trump’s support among Black men has produced conflicting data about how much he improved his standing during his second campaign. But the suggestion that Trump may have done better in 2020 (even if Black voters remained strongly Democratic overall) has triggered a debate about whether Republicans can make sustained inroads with these voters.
Black voters will play significant roles in determining competitive statewide races in Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as in Georgia, where Warnock faces Republican Herschel Walker in a contest between two Black men that has drawn national attention….
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“The story of America’s growth has always been intrinsically tied to America’s relationship with race,” he said. “And so at these key moments, America faces an opportunity to acknowledge how race has played into that and grow in a different direction, or to decline to acknowledge how race has played a part of that and continue a malformed growth.”….
image..USA Today