Detroit's Black voters want Democrats to try harder
Disgust of President Donald Trump alone will not get Black voters from Michigan out to the polls, a new Los Angeles Times report details.
The piece profiles several Black voters in Michigan who chose not to vote in 2016, as well as their mindsets going into the upcoming 2020 presidential election.
In 2016, many Black voters felt like the Democratic party let them down, and voter turnout fell when they were asked to support Hillary Clinton in the presidential election — a candidate who didn't campaign in Michigan until a mere few days before the election.
As Metro Times previously reported, the Democratic party's presidential candidates usually receive more than 95% of Detroit's vote, but that doesn't mean that those votes are guaranteed. The number of residents in Detroit — a city that is about 80 percent African-American — who cast a ballot during presidential elections dropped from 335,000 to 247,000 in 2016. PEW Research also found that year that the Black voter turnout rate across the country declined for the first time in two decades for a presidential election.
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