S4 Ep23: Taken for Granted? (with Ashley Allison)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello. Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah |
| 0:28.6 | Longwell publisher of the bulwark and this week we are talking about how both Joe Biden and Donald |
| 0:37.1 | Trump are doing with black voters. One of the key reasons that Donald Trump's polling has been better in 2024 |
| 0:46.5 | match-ups with Joe Biden than 2016 or 2020 is Trump's relative strength |
| 0:51.8 | with black voters. |
| 0:53.0 | When you only include the major party candidates, |
| 0:56.0 | black voters voted 93% for Hillary Clinton in 2016 |
| 1:00.0 | and 90% for Joe Biden in 2020, |
| 1:02.8 | according to the analysis from Data Firm Catalyst. |
| 1:05.8 | But now, some polls, including a recent one |
| 1:09.2 | from the New York Times and Seattle College, |
| 1:11.5 | have Trump pulling in 23% of black voters. It's no |
| 1:16.4 | coincidence that he was beating Joe Biden by five points at the same time |
| 1:20.3 | overall. That means that there are a small but meaningful handful of |
| 1:24.8 | black voters who voted for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden who are now going |
| 1:28.9 | with Trump. So of course we wanted to understand straight from these voters how they were thinking about Trump this time around. |
| 1:37.8 | My guest today is a big deal in Democratic politics who can help us explore this dynamic further. |
| 1:44.4 | My good friend Ashley Allison, the former National Coalition's Director for the 2020 |
| 1:49.6 | Biden Harris campaign. |
| 1:51.1 | She was also a senior policy advisor in the Obama White House that led |
| 1:54.2 | African-American engagement in the state of Ohio on President Obama's 2012 |
| 1:58.1 | campaign and she is like for real my good friend because one time we got sent to like grown-up politics camp |
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