Captured: Jack Beatty on the fall in Black and Hispanic working-class support for Democrats

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jack Beatty offers his unique perspective and insight on aspects of current political life in the U.S. In this episode, what’s behind a raft of polls showing a deterioration in support for a key voting block from President Biden in 2024. Plus, listeners tell us why they turned away from causes that were once part of their identity.

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0:36.0	Welcome to our on-point special podcast series. This is episode three of our weekly conversations
0:42.0	with news analyst Jack Beatty, where Jack brings us his truly unique insights on America
0:48.0	in our current political moment. I'm Magna Chakrabardi and hello again, Jack.
0:54.0	Hello, Magna. Okay, so drum roll and headline please, Jack. What are we going to talk about today?
1:00.0	Well, one word. Captured and more on that a nod as we go on. Captured. Okay, but now I can't wait.
1:12.0	Captured in the political sense, what? In the political sense, let me just define the problem,
1:20.0	for Democrats, a raft of polls lately has documented a deterioration as a sharp fall in minority working class support for Mr. Biden.
1:34.0	Here is the dimension of the fall. Obama beat Romney among working class minority voters. He beat Romney by 67 points.
1:46.0	Biden beat Trump into 20 by 48 points. Now Biden leads Trump among working class minority voters by a mere 16 points.
2:02.0	That's a fall of 51 points since Obama in 2012.
2:10.0	Well, Jack, can I just ask if that's a huge drop, right? And you said it was a raft of polling. So this isn't just from one poll. It's from several.
2:20.0	Oh, no, it's all over them. Yeah, there's a pew. There's a CNT time, CNT on and on.
2:28.0	So consistency. Yeah. Okay, go ahead. consistency. This is a trend for sure.
2:34.0	And indeed, among non-white voters as a whole, which is a bigger than simply non-white working class voters, Biden is down 20 points over what he was in 2020.
2:48.0	And of course, it raises the question, why? What's happened?
2:54.0	And specifically started to jump in there, Jack, but I just want to be sure I'm understanding what you're saying correctly.
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