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How Black voters in key cities helped deliver the election for Joe Biden
"The fact that we have matched and topped white voter participation and done that while going through voter suppression in new and old forms every year, we are extraordinary," said organizer LaTosha Brown.
Nov. 7, 2020, 5:24 PM EST
By Janell Ross
(NBC News) ATLANTA In the way that one could on election night 2020, LaTosha Brown was making the rounds.
She was in a suite near the top of a luxury hotel so close to the airport that the balcony view overlooked a Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport airplane parking lot. Also there was Cliff Albright, who, with Brown, co-founded the voter mobilization organization Black Voters Matter.
After a Google Hangout with the field directors they had hired to register, engage and boost voter participation around the country, Brown sequestered herself in a bedroom, resting her body in a hotel chair, her tired feet by then stripped to the socks on the bed.
Between bites of food and watching election returns turn bits of the national map red or blue, Brown juggled calls, internet video sessions and texts, in each countering the conventional wisdom with journalists, political operatives and others that the election would come down to Donald Trump's mythical all-white suburbs filled with stay-at-home moms or Joe Biden's ability to convert them. Instead, it was decided in racially diverse urban centers and increasingly diverse suburbs in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia.
The Black people who make up 39 percent or more of the population in those areas chose Biden, with some exceptions. In fact, once the vote counts from Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta started to near completion, Trump's lead in their respective states disappeared. Biden who would not have been the Democratic presidential nominee without Black voters in South Carolina reached 270 Electoral College votes in large part because of Black voters in these cities. ............(more)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/how-black-voters-key-cities-helped-deliver-election-joe-biden-n1246980
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How Black voters in key cities helped deliver the election for Joe Biden (Original Post)
marmar
Nov 2020
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Thekaspervote
(32,755 posts)1. Think Stacie Abrams...she was a big part
Want to help elect 2 dem senators out of GA and give us a majority? Besides supporting the 2 candidates,consider supporting her work as well
https://fairfight.com/
marmar
(77,073 posts)2. Absolutely.
We'll need her again almost immediately for the senate runoffs.
PTWB
(4,131 posts)3. We wouldn't be here today without the efforts of Black Americans.
If Jim Clyburn had endorsed him and the good people of South Carolina hadnt voted so overwhelmingly for Joe he wouldnt be President-elect!