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(AfAm Group) We aren't Trump's Demographic
Whatever slurs he wants to throw at us at Black Republican rallies where only 2 or 3 black folks are in attendance (his mug shot, we like him because of his arrests) - it is NOT on us.
This is a gift article from WaPo (2/29) so you shouldn't encounter issues with accessing and reading.
What the early primaries tell us about Trump’s changing base
https://wapo.st/431jABd
One of the most pronounced shifts is in the age of Trump’s base. Voters 65 and over made up a minority of his base in 2016. This year, they’re the largest group in terms of age.
He's still picking up white women - see how WaPo left that piece off?
The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the ending of the constitutional right to an abortion has already cost the Republican Party. But in the early primaries, it doesn’t appear to have hurt Trump’s standing among Republican women, who made up a slightly larger share of his base than eight years ago.
It's white Evangelic Christians and those who consider themselves extremely far right (Fascist/Authoritarian) that are voting in the early primaries.
By and large, White evangelical Christians liked Trump in 2016. But at the time many put their faith in Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), whose religious bona fides were well known. Powered by those voters, Cruz managed to snatch the Iowa caucuses from Trump before fading in the polls.
They dropped the white part of Evangelicals in this paragraph:
This year, Trump has a lock on the Christian right. Evangelicals made up a majority of his base — almost 51 percent — up from about 48 percent during his first run.
They dropped the white part of Evangelicals in this paragraph:
This year, Trump has a lock on the Christian right. Evangelicals made up a majority of his base — almost 51 percent — up from about 48 percent during his first run.
Adding this as it's an 'about' this story - not a PART of the story:
About this story
The South Carolina and New Hampshire exit polls results are from a survey of Republican primary voters as they exited randomly selected voting sites in South Carolina (2,126 voters on Feb. 24, 2024) and New Hampshire (2,129 voters on Jan. 23, 2024). Iowa results are from interviews of 1,628 caucus-goers as they entered randomly selected caucus locations across Iowa on Jan. 15, 2024. The polls were conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC), The Washington Post and other media organizations. Results were weighted to match vote tallies by region and to correct for differential participation by subgroup. Totals may not add to 100 percent because of rounding.
Don't forget this - they aren't our friends. We have to do anything and everything we can to cancel out their votes in Swing States. We must make these folks obsolete.
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