How we voted, and why

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A look at how key groups voted in this election: from Latinos in Texas and the women who went for President Trump to the Black voters who pushed President-elect Joe Biden across the finish line.

Democrats lost ground with swing Latino voters in key states such as Florida and Texas. In the Rio Grande Valley, national reporter Arelis Hernandez says, the surprising support for Trump underscores the need for Democrats to cultivate deeper relationships with a diverse Latino population.

White women were expected to vote overwhelmingly for Biden. That did not happen. Gender reporter Samantha Schmidt explains how party, not gender, is a stronger force in presidential politics today.

National reporter Vanessa Williams on how Black voters saved Joe Biden’s campaign, again.

Read The Post’s exit poll analysis here.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this is Tracy Jan Colley from the Post.
0:09.0	I'm a president for Power You Power.
0:12.0	Hi, it's Robert Given, of the Washington Post.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.0	It's Wednesday, November 18th.
0:25.0	Today, the voting trends that many polls missed and why we shouldn't be surprised.
0:37.0	As the dust has settled from election day, there is a sense that somethings didn't quite turn out how we expected.
0:44.0	Marginns were smaller than many polls predicted, and some groups of people voted in a way that was surprising or different from what many people had assumed.
0:53.0	Today, we're looking at a few of those groups, and we're starting in Texas.
0:59.0	I think there were a lot of state Democrats who were hoping that they could turn the state blue,
1:08.0	and had invested in some of those bigger races to make sure that that came through in some of the urban areas of Texas, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin.
1:22.0	But that didn't come to fruition in the way that they, I guess, had imagined or hoped for.
1:28.0	Arlees Hernandez is a correspondent for the Post-Based in Texas.
1:32.0	Polls and campaigns had predicted that Texas was going to be a battleground state.
1:37.0	Many people were even talking about Texas turning blue for the first time in more than 40 years.
1:43.0	You had a lot of new voters come and register for the first time and cast a ballot for the first time, and I think there was maybe this supposition that many of those new voters would in fact be Democrats, but in fact what we found is that many of them were also Republicans and voting for the first time and for Trump.
2:04.0	So tell me about why that increase in voter turnout ends up being also beneficial for President Trump.
2:18.0	Well, I think there was a lot of work that went into particularly in urban areas of Texas to get out that vote, right?
2:25.0	To get young people to vote, to encourage people to vote, whether it was through social media or through sort of like peer pressure, it went on. The Democrats could not canvas in the way that they're used to because of the pandemic.
2:37.0	There was very, there wasn't as much door knocking and sort of person to person work that was taking place.
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