“Kamala Harris’ relatively weak support from Black men was a prominent storyline leading up to the 2024 presidential election. A number of polls suggested Donald Trump could win a larger share of these voters than any Republican presidential candidate in recent memory. YouGov’s Cooperative Election Surveys (CES) even showed Trump’s share of the Black male vote surging from 12% in 2020 to 32% in 2024.

The national exit polls did not show much change among Black men from 2020 to 2024, as it turned out. But Trump made significant inroads with Black men in the larger AP VoteCast survey. According to this survey, Trump’s support among Black men increased from 12% in 2020 to 25% in 2024. Just 10% of Black women, by contrast, voted for Trump in the 2024 AP VoteCast survey.

Several analysts suggest that sexism played an important part in this sizable gender gap among Black voters. Former President Barack Obama also endorsed that idea. Speaking about Harris’ tepid support from Black men before the election, Obama said, “Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”

The story is more complex, however. Although sexist attitudes helped predict which Black men shifted from supporting Joe Biden in 2020 to supporting Trump in 2024, these shifts don’t simply stem from an aversion to Harris. Instead, Black men with sexist attitudes switched to Trump before Harris entered the presidential race.”

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