Preliminary exit polling indicates that around one-third of Hispanic voters cast their ballots for President Donald Trump, and more than four in ten voted for Trump in the crucial state of Florida. Trump’s performance among Hispanic voters in 2020 is likely better than it was in 2016, when exit polls […] Read more »
Trump’s racist appeals powered a White evangelical tsunami
As partisans and analysts puzzle over the higher-than-expected turnout for President Trump (nearly 6 million fewer votes than for President-elect Joe Biden, but still high), they are poring over groups and subgroups: White, non-college-educated men. Suburban women. Young Black men. But much of the Trump 2020 phenomenon can be explained […] Read more »
Majority of Americans find inequity in our education system
A strong majority of Americans say our public education system is unequal, and half say the nation’s schools aren’t well equipped to help children of all races and ethnicities succeed, according to a new Axios-Ipsos survey. … Eight in 10 Americans say public education is unequal, with different outcomes based […] Read more »
How 2020 Killed Off Democrats’ Demographic Hopes
For years, the Democratic Party has operated under one immutable assumption: Long-term demographic trends would give the party something like a permanent majority as the country as a whole grows less white and more urban. President Donald Trump’s reliance on the politics of racial resentment would only quicken the process, […] Read more »
Democrats’ 2024 Problem Is Already Clear
Joe Biden often describes himself as a bridge between the Democratic Party’s past and future generation of leaders. But the 2020 election results signal that he may play an even more indispensable role, as a bridge between the party’s past and future electoral coalitions. Biden won the White House by […] Read more »
Trump shocked the world with his Latino support. Here’s how it happened.
In 2020, President Trump delivered a political shock, not by winning the election but by taking an unexpectedly high share of the Latino vote. The story of how he did it says a lot about just how hard it is to build a stable political coalition. … What happened? How […] Read more »