voter percentage that we georgia stands alone at 29%. no other state that joe biden won by less than 5% anywhere close to it. michigan a 12%, pennsylvania 11%. another state that really rally for democrats in 2020 arizona. very tight, just like georgia. well within half a percentage point for biden. and went all the way down, at 2%. so, in georgia, black voters are very important. but here is the other key thing to recognize about georgia. and that is, take a look at the black voter percentage. according to the secretary of state, for whom the races known. we are looking at those, some look at this in 2020. black voters made of 29% as we just pointed out. look we were in 2000. it s just 23%. so it s not just that black voters make up a very large percentage of the georgia electorate. their percentage of the georgia electorate is growing. compare that to nationally,
look at the black voter percentage that we saw in the exit poles. georgia stands alone at 29%. no other state that president biden won by less than five points comes anywhere close to it michigan 12%. pennsylvania, 11 percent. another state that really rallied for the democrats, arizona, very tight like georgia. all the way down to 2%. in georgia, black voters are important. but here is the other key thing to recognize about georgia that is, take a look at the black voter percentage according to the second of state look at this. in 2020, black voters made up 29%. look at where we were in 2000. it was just 23%. it is not that they just make up a big percentage.
black voter percentage in the georgia runoff has shrunk. but look back at the 2020 runoff. the turnout is percentage of the 2020 general election. and the majority black county s. it was 92%. that is their proportion was very close to proportion that they made up in the general electorate. and all of the counties, whose 89%. so black letters actually made up a large percentage in the runoff and they did in the general election. that is very unusual. raffle were not in the 2021 senate special runoff. look at that, one by 86 points. ossoff won by 84 points. considerably larger than biden s 20 2020 presidential election, just 77 points. then, of course. in the 2022 senate runoff. look at that, we re knock over one by three among black voters
right? where 11% back in 2000. i just 12% in 2020. so we see disproportional growth in georgia, of the black voter percentage. and just to give you an idea of how this map kind of works, right? look at the 2020 georgia presidential results. the actual rose by 0.22 percentage points. if in fact, the black voter percentage of the electorate had stayed the same for back to thousand. donald trump won by about six points. so that by the black voter percentage is rising that is a large part of the reason that joe biden was able to come away with that narrow victory in the peach state. wow, that is the presidential race i was wondering, as we ve seen, for georgia. we keep looking at georgia, and everyone s mind. time and time again. for the senate runoff races as well. deciding, of course, who s gonna be in power, the majority. power how have black voters impacted the senate runoffs? big lead. big lead. traditionally speaking.