Are Black Voters Leaving Democrats Behind?

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Polls suggest that they are – and that Black voters’ support for Donald Trump, especially among men, is rising. Astead W. Herndon convened a special "Run-Up" Thanksgiving focus group to explore what might be behind those numbers. He spoke with family, friends and, parishioners from his father’s church, community members and people he grew up with. It’s a lively conversation with real implications for what might happen if the 2024 presidential election is a Biden-Trump rematch. Because where better to talk politics than over turkey and an ample dessert spread?

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0:00.0	Not to pick favorites, but Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday.
0:05.0	So when I thought about the show this week, there was only one place I knew it could be.
0:12.0	Hi. Home. There was only one place I knew it could be. Hi, Mom, this is A Lisa, this is Anna.
0:18.0	The girl producers on the runner.
0:20.0	And we're so nice to meet you.
0:23.0	Come on here.
0:25.0	I wanted to come home with my colleagues and microphones in tow.
0:30.0	To do the one thing you're not traditionally supposed to do on
0:34.2	Thanksgiving. Talk politics at the dinner table. Specifically I wanted to ask my
0:40.0	family and friends about one political question that's recently been all over the news.
0:46.4	The changing relationship between black voters and the Democratic Party.
0:51.6	The numbers are staggering.
0:54.1	In a new poll of battleground states
0:56.2	from Siena College in the New York Times,
0:59.0	22% of black voters said they would support
1:01.3	Donald Trump over Joe Biden and a hypothetical
1:04.3	rematch in 2024. That's compared to the 8% Trump carried nationally in 2020. Now it's
1:12.4	just one poll but it comes after the 2022 midterms where black
1:17.3	turnout was one of the Democrats weakest points and anecdotally it tracks with what I see in my own life, as black people I grew up with,
1:27.0	especially younger black people and black men, feel less and less tied to the Democratic
1:32.3	party. Some are more open to vote. feel less and less tied to the Democratic Party.
1:33.0	Some are more open to voting for Republicans
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