Throughout the primary, Donald Trump prided himself on being consistently able to bring new voters in the Republican Party. And it looks like he’s still doing so.
In a recent poll of North Carolina voters, released by the Civitas Institute, Trump not only leads Clinton overall—46% to 42%—but he takes a substantial portion of the African-American vote too.
32% of African-Americans polled said that they were voting for Donald Trump.
And while Hillary still leads Trump among African-American voters, the fact that she’s losing such a substantial portion of an overwhelmingly-Democrat demographic doesn’t bode well for her election prospects.
For comparison, back in 2008, Barack Obama narrowly won North Carolina, by just 0.4%—and won more than 87% of the black vote.
Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina, in fact, was done so largely because he won black voters by such a large margin—and because they turned out in massive numbers to elect the nation’s first African-American president. Roughly a third of Obama’s votes in North Carolina came from African-Americans.
Donald Trump’s more nationalist message might be turning off establishment Republicans—but it’s clear, if Trump continues to mobilize previously Democratic voters, Hillary Clinton’s campaign could be in big trouble.
AAN Staff
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