According to election data, Donald Trump made serious inroads among deep blue Philadelphia’s black voters.
Trump did amazingly better in Philly’s black neighborhoods. But Harris didn’t just do worse, black turnout was exceedingly low.
“Democrats performed worse in 649 of the 688 majority-Black precincts in Philadelphia while Trump grew his share of votes in 635 majority-Black precincts as compared with 2020,” the Philadelphia Enquirer wrote.
According to the Philadelphia Enquirer:
That rightward trend wasn’t driven solely by increased Republican support among voters of color, but it also reflected low voter turnout in majority-Black precincts like West Philadelphia’s Mill Creek neighborhood, where the Aldi grocery store is. Bryant has never voted, though as a Black man he’s part of one of the Democrats’ most loyal bases, one the party failed to turn out.
According to an Inquirer analysis of election results, Democrats performed worse in 649 of the 688 majority-Black precincts in Philadelphia while Trump grew his share of votes in 635 majority-Black precincts as compared with 2020.
Black neighborhoods also had some of the lowest turnout in the city. Of the about 22,600 people who sat out the election, about 80% lived in Black-majority precincts.
Citywide, Trump enjoyed increased support across racial lines in less affluent neighborhoods with fewer college graduates. And marginal growth in support for Trump in some majority-Black precincts, coupled with lower-than-expected turnout, helped him perform better in Black precincts.
The paper added, “Trump’s support among Black men in Pennsylvania was higher than the national average, where 21% of Black men voted for the Republican. It’s also a staggering leap in support for the president-elect compared with 2020, when exit polling found Trump garnered support from just 10% of Black men in Pennsylvania.”
It seems likely that Trump was a once in a lifetime happening for the black vote. But it is also likely that it is the beginning of a trend that will continue to pull blacks away from the Democrat Party as more and more of them come to realize that the Deomcrats have left them behind.
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