The White Elephants In The Room

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🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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One of the biggest storylines from the 2020 presidential race has ... well, race at the center of it. If you paid attention to the stories about exit polling, you heard a lot of talk about how Latinx and Black voters showed up in bigger numbers this year than back in 2016. But on this week's episode, we also focus on a conversation that's not happening: The one about a group whose support for Donald Trump hasn't wavered. We're talking about the white vote, and in particular, white evangelical voters.

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0:00.0	The following episode contains explicit language mostly because we quote in the
0:04.4	President of the United States. I think LA Times columnist Gustavo Arreano summarized the
0:09.1	early post-election coverage best in his November 4th column. No matter who ends up winning the
0:15.2	presidential election, one thing is already clear. It's all the fault of Latino voters.
0:23.1	All your thoughts, Serene? Let's not forget about the black men who voted for Trump in
0:27.2	greater numbers in last time. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, them too. But yes, we should absolutely
0:32.6	pin this tighter than expected election. That took place during a global
0:36.5	pandemic with a surge in early voting and mail-in voting. We should blame that all on the brown
0:41.6	people who voted for Donald Trump. Never mind that POCs turned out in record numbers and Joe Biden
0:49.6	won the election. We still heard a whole lot of this. Trump getting more non-white voters than
0:55.0	any Republican in 60 years. Who polling showing fewer black men voting blue in this election?
1:00.5	Many listening right now have probably heard that Donald Trump fared quite well among
1:06.1	Latino voters. You learned that. In places like Wisconsin, we've seen that Donald Trump's approval rating
1:11.2	as high as 22% amongst black men. I'm Jean Demby. I'm Serene Marisol Maragi and this is Co-Switch.
1:19.8	From MPR. Okay, so one of the big storylines from the 2020 presidential race has a race at the center
1:26.6	of it. Surprise. But the media spotlight wasn't on white voters and more specifically the white
1:34.7	evangelical voters who were a big part of President Trump's support. Don't worry y'all. We will be
1:40.9	talking about that on this episode. But before we get to that, we're going to talk about the increases
1:45.8	in black and Latinx support for Trump and some of the big takeaways from those numbers. Tag,
1:53.0	junior it. All right, so let's get into it. Trump's improves standing with black voters. Well,
1:58.1	black men specifically. It was a focus of a lot of media attention as we just heard. And to make
2:03.1	sense of what happened there, I called up one of our faves, Cheryl later. She's been on the podcast
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