Minority voters have rejected the diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology of the Democratic Party and the DEI candidate that the party put forward. It should be the end of the DEI racialization of our politics.
Across the map, Vice President Kamala Harris lost ground among black, Hispanic, and female voters, despite her campaign’s obsessive focus on identitarian divisions. Counties that were more than 25% black shifted 4.1 points to the right compared to 2020, which was bigger than the 2.5 shift leftward from 2016 to 2020. Similarly, counties that were more than 25% Hispanic, which shifted to the right by 0.9 points in 2020, jumped 9.5 points further to the right in 2024. According to NBC exit polls of key swing states, Trump won 20% of black men, 37% of Hispanic women, 52% of white women, and 54% of Hispanic men.
