Help me understand these two demographics totals.

[Funtatlaguy]

Trump got a bigger percentage of white female and black male votes in 2020 than in 2016.
I just don’t get that.
Even with a black female on the ballot, the Dems do worse with white women and black men.
Can anyone offer any reasons why?

https://www.essence.com/news/politics/55-percent-white-women-trump-election-2020/

[lapfog_1]

1. white women

may have been convinced by the summer of unrest in Portland and other cities and the right wing "jobs not mobs" commercials... and yes, the "defund the police" slogan.

I have no idea about black men...

[Old Terp]

2. This 73 year old white, college educated Grammy doesn't get it.

Neither do my other senior, college educated female friends. None of us get it. I'm more afraid of the white nut jobs with guns.

[rustysgurl]

3. I'm white and I didn't vote for him.

But the white female Evangelical vote is huge. No matter how I tried, I could not convince those I knew that Trump was a worse candidate. They were, in most cases, one-issue voters. Abortion. Even though I proved that abortion numbers go down in Democrat administrations, and that Trump's morals probably added to the # of abortions, it didn't matter. He had a big fat "R" after his name so he was the choice.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. You're correct.

There's lots of them in my area.

[FrankTC]

4. There Weren't That Many White Males Left To Get?

In 2016, Trump’s best demographic was white males, especially the non-college types. Maybe there just weren’t that many left? For example, if you already have 75% of a group, it’s harder to increase than if you had only 10%. In one instance, if you get another 10% it’s only a 13% increase, but in the other instance, if you get another 10% it’s a 100% gain. Apart from the distribution of relative gains among the various demographic groups, I too find it mind boggling that Trump could get more total votes in 2020 than in 2016, after four years of cruel, venal, and psychopathic incompetence.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. Thank goodness for black women. They saved us and the world.

[Pobeka]

7. Democracy Now's Juan Gonzales analysis shows less support from black males in 2020 for Trump.

I can't comment any more because it was a verbal reference made on this morning's show by Amy Goodman.

I'll see what I can find of his analysis if it's available.

[Funtatlaguy]

8. That's incorrect.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-men-drifted-democrats-toward-trump-record-numbers-polls-show-n1246447