White People Continue to Stand Alone in Their Support of Trump, Survey Confirms
As part of their storied tradition of doing the absolute least when more is required of them, white people remain demographic outliers in their support of Donald Trump, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that pits Trump against his presumptive Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. According to the new poll, Biden maintains a sizable (and expected) lead among black American voters, leading 85 percent to Trump’s 7 percent. Self-identified Latinx voters also supported the former Barack Obama veep, at 60 percent to 26 percent.
But among all white voters, Trump still maintained an edge over Biden, with 51 percent of white voters giving their support to the president. Biden polled at 42 percent for white voters.
NBC analysts helped put some of these numbers in context, pointing out that Obama and Hillary Clinton actually polled more poorly with white voters during the 2012 and 2016 election (39 percent for 2012 Obama, and between 37 and 39 percent for Clinton in 2016). There was also a clear education split, particularly among white women: 64 percent of white women with a college degree supported Biden, as opposed to 37 percent of white women who didn’t go to college. There was a similar, albeit smaller, split among white male voters in the survey. Those without a college education voiced slightly more support for Biden (46 percent) than Trump (44 percent), but white men with lower levels of education showed a strong preference for Trump, at 65 percent.
This has been the pattern for the entirety of Trump’s presidency, though it’s all the more notable now for several reasons. If Americans are at all split about Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, that division is primarily among white Americans.
https://www.theroot.com/white-people-continue-to-stand-alone-in-their-support-o-1842986666
Brown Rose
Anne Branigin
4/21/20 8:11pm
Again this should surprise no one Black. The absolute chasm of Black people supporting Biden at 85% compared to White people (college and non college) is hardly surprising. Whites haven’t supported a Dem president since 1964-when the Civil Right Bill passed. Despite some of them calling Obama their Dad and for him to come back, only 38% and 42% of white people voted for him in 2008 and 2012. Obama won in spite of White people.
And despite his psychopathy, his racism, his abject cruelty, and general evilness, many White people are gearing up to vote for that pustule again.
As part of their storied tradition of doing the absolute least when more is required of them, white people remain demographic outliers in their support of Donald Trump, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that pits Trump against his presumptive Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. According to the new poll, Biden maintains a sizable (and expected) lead among black American voters, leading 85 percent to Trump’s 7 percent. Self-identified Latinx voters also supported the former Barack Obama veep, at 60 percent to 26 percent.
But among all white voters, Trump still maintained an edge over Biden, with 51 percent of white voters giving their support to the president. Biden polled at 42 percent for white voters.
NBC analysts helped put some of these numbers in context, pointing out that Obama and Hillary Clinton actually polled more poorly with white voters during the 2012 and 2016 election (39 percent for 2012 Obama, and between 37 and 39 percent for Clinton in 2016). There was also a clear education split, particularly among white women: 64 percent of white women with a college degree supported Biden, as opposed to 37 percent of white women who didn’t go to college. There was a similar, albeit smaller, split among white male voters in the survey. Those without a college education voiced slightly more support for Biden (46 percent) than Trump (44 percent), but white men with lower levels of education showed a strong preference for Trump, at 65 percent.
This has been the pattern for the entirety of Trump’s presidency, though it’s all the more notable now for several reasons. If Americans are at all split about Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, that division is primarily among white Americans.
https://www.theroot.com/white-people-continue-to-stand-alone-in-their-support-o-1842986666
Brown Rose
Anne Branigin
4/21/20 8:11pm
Again this should surprise no one Black. The absolute chasm of Black people supporting Biden at 85% compared to White people (college and non college) is hardly surprising. Whites haven’t supported a Dem president since 1964-when the Civil Right Bill passed. Despite some of them calling Obama their Dad and for him to come back, only 38% and 42% of white people voted for him in 2008 and 2012. Obama won in spite of White people.
And despite his psychopathy, his racism, his abject cruelty, and general evilness, many White people are gearing up to vote for that pustule again.