Black men voted for Harris; White women and Latino men didn’t

Vice President Kalama Harris conceded Wednesday’s election to Republican Donald Trump, who won the nation’s presidency for the second time. 

“I know some of you feel sad and disappointed,” Harris told Howard University students, their parents, and others who gathered on the school’s campus, which is located in Washington D.C.“This fight will take a while. Don’t ever give up. This is a fight for justice,” she said.

Many in the crowd of men and women wiped away tears as she spoke. Even former U.S. Senator Clair McCaskill, a television commentator, had to briefly stop talking as she wiped away tears while sharing comments on an MSNBC broadcast that followed Harris’s speech. Throughout the speech, audience members shouted “We love you” to Harris.

Harris also made an oblique reference to Trump telling the gathered crowd, ‘ Many of you believe we are headed to a dark time.’ 

Vice President Harris spoke for about 10 minutes, acknowledging running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. After she completed her speech, she and Emhoff walked away arm in arm.

Trump won 295 electoral votes to Harris’s 226. A total of 270 electoral votes are needed to win the presidency.

Harris called Trump to congratulate him on winning the election before speaking at Howard. While campaigning, Trump told lies and regularly insulted Harris, calling her ‘stupid’ and ‘unfit for office.

Some of these beliefs resonated with Latino men, said Victor Martinez, owner of a Spanish-language radio station based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Martinez said Latino men wouldn’t vote for Harris, a woman, because women wouldn’t be respected and therefore they should not hold such a powerful position.

Donald Trump won the majority of White women voters as he had previously.

Even after destroying abortion rights and threatening reproductive rights in general, even after a judge went to painstaking lengths to clarify that Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, and even as the Harris campaign targeted the imaginary “silent majority” of women hiding their political views from their husbands, 53 percent of White American women showed us who they are: Trump supporters.

National exit polls show that Trump easily carried White women’s vote, as 60 percent of White men voted for Trump. 

There was so much liberal hand-wringing over Harris’s perceived issues with Black male voters. A bit earlier, Former President Barack Obama delivered an entire speech blaming Black men for their reluctance to back Harris. 

And yet Harris won three-quarters of Black men, while a much larger, much more powerful group of voters (White women) rejected the party seeking their votes. eir votes for the third time in a row.

Trump also made unfounded allegations against immigrants, charging, for example, that they were eating family pets — dogs and cats.

Harris told Trump, who will become the nation’s 47th president, she wants a peaceful transfer of power. 

He also was the nation’s 45th president when he defeated Hillary Clinton on November 8, 2016. Clinton won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote.