How Stable Is the Democratic Coalition?
The party may control the elected branches in Washington. But it may be facing some slippage in support from minority communities.
By Eric Kaufmann
Feb. 13, 2021
Voters waited in Phoenix to cast their ballots in the 2020 election.Credit.Edgard Garrido/Reuters
Democrats are riding high in Washington, with control of the White House and Congress. They got there with a broad coalition that included suburban white and minority voters I estimate, based on exit poll data, that nearly half of the Democrats’ roughly 81 million votes came from the latter group. For Republicans, it was just 18 percent.
Black men who voted for Trump double down with their support
EXCLUSIVE: 12% of Black men voted for Trump in the 2020 Presidential election in comparison to just 6% of Black women
Inauguration Day is just a week away amid outgoing President
Donald Trump finally conceding the 2020 election almost two months later. However, he recently announced he will not attend the ceremony of President-elect
Joe Biden.
The events following November’s General Election pass for the climax of an action-packed blockbuster. Trump initially refused to concede to the President-elect and launched dozens of lawsuits in the name of baseless claims of voter fraud. Then on Jan. 6 during a Washington, D.C. rally promoted by Trump to contest the certification of the Electoral College votes, hundreds of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
TikTok Mom Is Going Viral for Having Her Kids Kneel and Pray to Black Women
On 1/7/21 at 2:03 PM EST
TikTok user teenychamp shared a video on Tuesday that has surfaced on Twitter, leaving many divided over how she s teaching her sons to praise Black women.
New York Times style reporter Taylor Lorenz wrote on Wednesday night: This mom on TikTok is going viral for having her kids kneel and pray to black women.
This mom on TikTok is going viral for having her kids kneel and pray to black women pic.twitter.com/Hi94ZvMl7C Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) January 7, 2021