The dean of the nation’s political analysts, Michael Barone, sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss the 2024 election.
The headline that emerged from that discussion was “Donald Trump’s Rainbow Coalition,” noting that the monopoly of the Democratic Party over the nation’s black vote seems to be over.
If this is true, and it indeed seems to be, the implications for the political dynamics of our nation’s future are profound.
In 2024, Trump picked up 13% of the black vote compared with 8% in 2016, and 21% of black men voted for Trump.
Also, among black voters, as in all voting groups, young voters moved more to the Republican candidate.
Among black voters ages 18-29, 16% voted for Trump, compared with 6% of black voters 65 and up.
In 1956, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower won 39% of the black vote. In 1960, Republican Richard Nixon…
