As reporters spoke to black and Hispanic voters in the Bronx this week, they found that Vice President Kamala Harris isn’t winning their votes solely because of her gender or skin color.
Reporter Kara Castronuova traveled to New York City’s northernmost borough with one question in mind: Are black and Hispanic voters persuaded by identity politics or by policy?
“It’s not about race. It’s about what they offer to society. It’s about what they can do for the community.”
The voters she spoke to were left unconvinced.
“She’s using skin color. Martin Luther King said skin color doesn’t matter. He believed we should be judged by the content of our character,” said one black woman voter with a thick New York accent. “But if she continues to use skin color as a selling point, then she’s misunderstanding what black people really are.”
Another voter said, “Even if someone who looks like me gets elected to public office, [be a] If you choose someone who will harm the community, what is the point? But if you choose someone who can grow the community, that’s the right choice. … I choose Trump.”
Here’s what other voters told Castronuova:
- “I’m looking at who I think is best qualified to run this country. That’s all I’m looking at.”
- “Black Latinos are starting to get a little more critical. They’re tired of their hard-earned money going to illegals and undocumented people.”
- “Kamala Harris hasn’t done a good job on the border because as far as I’m concerned, a lot of people have come from the other side and done a lot of bad things to the place we call home.”
- “I don’t think she’s a good candidate for president because she’s been with Joe Biden for the last two years. She’s a big failure in New York.”
- “It’s not about race. It’s about what they offer to society. It’s about what they can do for the community.”
- “She’s putting a lot of black Americans in prison for marijuana possession, but they don’t really hate her.”
Another voter who spoke to Castronuova described the trend toward identity politics and emphasizing candidates’ race as “weird.”
Conventional political theory holds that Democrats have for decades assumed that black and Hispanic voters will always support them, and historically, they have overwhelmingly voted Democratic.
But somewhere along the line, voters in these minority communities began to wake up to the Democratic Party’s history of making empty promises and outreach only at election time.
As a result, voter preferences continue to change. According to the Financial TimesJohn Byrne-Murdoch, chief data reporter at the Financial Times, explained that America is a place where “people vote on the basis of their beliefs rather than their identities”.
“This is bad news for Democrats,” he said. said.
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