Four years of President Trump’s tweets have made white women woke, but his policies have evidently made black and Latino men take a second look. Polling leading up to the highly contentious 2020 election indicated that Trump would do better than any Republican presidential candidate in a general election since George W. Bush in 2004, and based on early returns, the polls, at least in this respect, were correct.
Florida, favored to benefit Joe Biden by a razor-thin margin leading up to Tuesday, was not the nail-biter it was supposed to be. The Sunshine State was one of the few purple bellwethers expected to post returns tonight, but late into the night. Instead, Biden vastly underperformed Hillary Clinton in Miami-Dade County, leading to an early call for Trump. If this result and Georgia exit polls are any indication, it’s thanks to a paradigm shift of the racial political gap become less polarized and the gender gap becoming more so.
