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What Will Beat President Trump In 2020?
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How will Democrats beat President Donald Trump in 2020? That is the question of the hour. With the impeachment hearings in the rearview mirror and a very real election upon us, we have to take a look back at 2016 and ask, “What happened?”
One set of simple statistics speaks volumes. 66.6% (2012) vs. 59.6% (2016).
The Census Bureau reported that in 2012 there was a 66.6 percent turnout for Black voters compared to a 59.6 percent turnout in 2016. Compared to a 65.3 percent turnout for White voters in 2016. It is safe to say that if Black people had turned out in higher numbers in 2016, Hillary Clinton would be President right now.
From my vantage point, it seems as if President Trump placed a bet and ran the table.
Bernie Sanders hails from Vermont and doesn’t have the connections to the Black community and Hillary Clinton may have underplayed her allegiances that the Clinton name affords her with people of color, specifically in the South. Fast-forward to the 2020 elections and an over-crowded Democratic field and still no front-runner besides Joe Biden. No Democrat has garnered the attention or captured the hearts of the Black community like…
