Whatever the reasons are for the swing toward Trump among black voters, just a small percentage shift in support from this voting bloc can turn an election.
On Monday, CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten told viewers that at this point in 2020, 86% of black voters backed President Joe Biden, while 7% supported Trump. Currently, Biden’s share of the black vote is 70% compared to 21% for Trump.that while Biden’s support among black voters over the age of 50 has fallen from 83% to 74% over the last four years, his support among black voters under 50 has plunged by a whopping 50% from 80% to 37%.
There are several reasons why black voters might be moving to the Republican Party. Maybe they are finally waking up to the fact that, despite their decadeslong loyalty to the Democratic Party, they really haven’t gotten much in return. Second, the Trump administration’s passage of the First Step Act, “the most sweeping criminal justice reform legislation in a generation … reformed the sentencing laws that have wrongly and disproportionately harmed black communities for decades.”
And unlike Biden, Trump has reached out to black Americans on the campaign trail. In addition to his rally in the South Bronx last month, Trump traveled to Detroit on Saturday to attend a community roundtable with the city’s black business leaders where he received an extremely enthusiastic
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