2016 vs. 2024

To be sure, Trump's 2016 win was due in large part to two factors: bringing new voters to the polls, and capturing a sizable percentage of not-Hillary votes. But in 2024, the president-elect took millions of votes from the Democrat Party, including, as I said above, record numbers of black and Hispanic voters. That reality is no doubt terrifying to the Democrat elites who for decades have viewed an overwhelming majority of the black vote a given. 

That all changed in 2024.

While former President Barack Obama and other black Democrats chastised black men who refused to support Harris, choosing instead to vote for Trump, record numbers of black women also abandoned Harris and the Democrats.

In one example, Kiki Fuchser, a black female Trump supporter, posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) explaining why she was "not with Kamala." Notice the various hashtags Ms. Fuchser included.

I'm not with Kamala. I was in Trumps ad, but they only used a small portion. Here is the full video. #notwithkamala #imnotwithher #kamalaharris #kamala #trumpad #election2024 pic.twitter.com/NU293d6z69

— Kiki Fuchser (@ShankikaFuchser) October 29, 2024

I can't help but believe that the views Kiki Fuchser and other black women who believe as she believes are here to stay, if Trump and congressional Republicans deliver on his promises. 

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Oops: It Looks Like Kamala Harris Isn't Doing So Well With Black Voters

Wall Street Journal opinion writer Jason L. Riley shared his thoughts on what could be the beginning of a realignment in a Wednesday op-ed. "Black and Hispanic voters defect[ed] from Democrats," Riley said, adding a significant fact: "who have long relied on identity-politics appeals."

Exactly. Identity politics, the politics of division, and verbally eviscerating Trump, all of which went horribly wrong for not only Kamala Harris and her goofy running mate Tim Walz, but also for dozens of down-ballot Democrats.

Riley called Trump's win over Harris "remarkable" with respect to nonwhite voters.

Much is rightly being made of Mr. Trump’s appeal to nonwhite voters and his ability to diversify the GOP coalition. According to NBC News, since 2012 there has been a 15-point shift toward Republicans among black voters, a 32-point shift among Asians, and a 38-point shift among Latinos. 

That this trend continued in a presidential election with a woman of black and Indian heritage at the top of the Democratic ticket is even more remarkable. Mr. Trump won more than 20% of black men and more than half of Hispanic men, according to exit polls. If this wasn’t the country’s first post-racial election, voters took a big step in that direction.

For liberals this is a terrifying thought, because so much of the Democratic Party’s infrastructure is built around appeals to racial and ethnic identity. Have you noticed how the left is trying to turn “colorblind” into a dirty word? If economic status and cultural sensibilities are replacing race and ethnicity as the more reliable lens for discerning voter preferences, the left has its work cut out.

Perhaps what is most remarkable is the 38-point shift among Hispanic voters.

As I reported on Oct. 26 in an article titled "'Fed Up With Being Exploited': Voters in Key Demographic Group Could Very Well Doom Kamala Harris," while Hispanic voters have historically leaned heavily toward Democrat candidates, Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue told Fox News' "Fox & Friends First" that he wasn't at all surprised by the shift toward Trump. "We are the No. 1 exploited community in the world," Unanue said at the time, explaining (emphasis, mine): 

The biggest industry that has flourished under this administration, under Kamala, has been drugs and human trafficking. Last year, Tara Lee Rodas testified that the U.S. is the middleman in this hundreds of billion-dollar business. She said there were 85,000 children missing…

From 85,000, this year, they raised the amount of children lost or sold to 325,000 children. The Hispanic community, the Latino community is fed up with being exploited. They're fed up with high prices, and that's why you're seeing this community go head over heels toward Donald J. Trump.

So let it be written; so let it be done.

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We've got the whole ball now, and it's at our peril if we fumble it away.