Democratic strategist James Carville warned on Sunday that the Democratic Party’s declining numbers among young minority voters ahead of the presidential election is “horrifying.”
“I’ve been very vocal about this,” the former Bill Clinton campaign strategist said in an interview. Podcast “Carville Classroom”. “The numbers among young voters, especially young blacks, young Latinos, and young people of color, are frightening. Especially men.”
“We’re not kicking them out, they’re leaving in droves,” he added.
According to the survey, in the past year, 66% of Black adults said they lean Democratic or support the Democratic Party, and 19% say they lean Democratic or Republican. Gallup survey Released in February.
The 47 percentage point disparity is the lowest in at least the past 25 years and is down 19 percentage points from 2020, when 77 percent of Black adults identified as Democrats and just 11 percent identified as Republicans.
Similarly, the poll found that 47% of Hispanics called themselves Democrats and 35% said they were Republicans, but in 2021, 57% of Hispanics identified as Democrats and 26% identified as Republicans. He answered that he was a Republican.
Both groups are key voting blocs for the Democratic Party, and President Biden, like his own party, has garnered significant support from Black and Hispanic voters.
a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll The 81-year-old president’s approval rating among Black voters has fallen to 63% from 87% in 2020, according to statistics released in January.
The same survey found former President Donald Trump had an advantage over Biden among voters under 35 (37% to 33%) and Hispanic voters (39% to 34%).
A poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College in March found Trump, 77, leading Biden 46% to 40% among self-identified Hispanic voters, with support from 23% of black registered voters. I am getting .
Carville argued that Democrats must communicate that the “consequences” of electing President Trump to the next White House will affect young black and Hispanic Americans “for the next 35 years” of their lives. .
“We’re not trying to convince people under 30, under 35, ‘Oh, we built a really great country for you,'” he said. “You look at this job market…I don’t think you’re going to buy it.”
“We need strong advocacy to explain to these young people what exactly is at stake for them here,” Carville added.
“Forget birth control pills, forget reproductive rights, forget environmental protection. Forget everything.”
