The @GOP is working hard to try to disenfranchise and to make it harder for black voters, particularly in urban communities, to vote.
But one of the biggest factors in Trump's 2020 loss is the fact that he did worse with white voters. He IMPROVED slightly with black voters.
Trump still won white voters overwhelmingly, 58-41 nationally. That's a 17 point margin.
But, in 2016, Trump won white voters 58-37. Which is a 21 point margin.
He lost 4 points with white voters.
This might not sound like a big deal. But in 2016, white voters represented 73.6% of the electorate (I'm looking forward to when @electproject updates the stats to be updated for demographic turnout for 2020).
Losing a net 4% of 73.6% of the electorate is 3 points.
And what Trump seems to have missed with his white nationalist propaganda is that not all white voters think alike (ironic, isn't it?)
Trump's racist rhetoric turned off a lot of white voters.
If you compare the exit polls from 2016 and 2020, here's how much of a net margin loss Trump saw among white voters in various states. Trump may have still won white voters in these states but he lost votes with them compared to 2016.
Change in Trump's margin with white voters, 2016 v 2020:
Colorado (-18)
Virginia (-16)
Washington (-16)
Georgia (-15)
Michigan (-10)
Minnesota (-11)
Texas (-10)
Arizona (-8)
Kentucky (-8)
Maine (-8)
New Hampshire (-8)
New York (-8)
Ohio (-8)
Florida (-7)
Nevada (-5)
Change in Trump's margin with white voters, 2016 v 2020 (continued):
Wisconsin (-5)
Iowa (-2)
Pennsylvania (-1)
California (+1)
South Carolina (+1)
North Carolina (+2)
If you look at the exit polls for his losses with Independents, comparing 2016 v 2020, it's pretty similar for the most part.
Kentucky (-28)
New Hampshire (-27)
Virginia (-24)*
Michigan (-22)*
Wisconsin (-22)*
Georgia (-20)*
North Carolina (-20)*
Texas (-20)*
Maine (-19)
Trump's margin change w/Independents, 2016 v 2020 (cont):
Nevada (-19)*
Colorado (-18)*
Minnesota (-17)*
Iowa (-17)*
Florida (-15)*
Pennsylvania (-15)*
Ohio (-14)
Arizona (-12)*
New York (-10)
California (-9)
Washington (-8)
South Carolina (0%)
* Won Indies in 2016, lost in 2020
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One year ago, in February, 2020, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 158.7 million Americans were employed.
In February, 2021, the number of employed Americans is down to 150.2 million.
(Source: bls.gov)
And if you total all the monthly jobs reports from last March through the one that was released yesterday, even with the recent gains, America has lost 6.11 million jobs in the last 12 months.
That's a lot of money out of households.
A lot of small businesses struggling to survive. Or not surviving.
I hate debt and I hate spending. I hate incurring it myself and I hate it when the government incurs it.
But I also hate hypocrisy.
When Trump came to office, the National Debt was $19.95 trillion.
When he left, it was $27.76 trillion.
$7.81 trillion. And the GOP said NOTHING
We're in a pandemic now. America has about 2.5 million fewer jobs today than we had four years ago. That missing money has put a lot of people in financial jeopardy. The tax revenue lost by government and the toll on businesses has been staggering. Many are barely surviving.
That $7.8 trillion dollars in additional debt that America incurred during the Presidency of Donald Trump, which the GOP members of Congress had no problem with whatsoever based on their public comments, is more than four times the cost of the COVID bill. @HouseGOP@SenateGOP
Trump lost more jobs in a single term than any President since Herbert Hoover and was the least popular President in the history of modern polling. #TrumpSOTU
Since CPAC 2017, four years ago, the Republican Party has lost:
2 US Senate seats in Arizona
2 US Senate seats in Georgia
1 US Senate seat in Nevada
1 US Senate seat in Colorado
Since CPAC 2017, Trump's Party has lost:
The Governorships of Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey and Maine.
For those in the CPAC Universe, nothing will probably convince you that Trump lost the election (or that the moon landing wasn’t faked or that George Soros isn’t controlling the weather - but I digress).
But here is some attempted cult de-programming, anyway ... #EarthToCPAC
Trump didn’t just lose AZ, GA, MI, PA and WI in 2020 after winning them in 2016. Trump’s entire PARTY got wiped out in these and other states in the four years Trump was in office.