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After 92% of Black women Voted for Harris, what's next?

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Tuesday, December 10, 2024   

Some experts contended part of the reason Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election was because of what they called "misogynoir," the intersection of sexism and racism.

In 2020 the Keystone State backed Joe Biden and Harris, the first woman vice president. But just last month, President-elect Donald Trump won Pennsylvania with 19 electoral votes.

LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, said despite the loss and Trump's relentless personal attacks on Harris, millions of Americans did vote for her because of what she embodied.

"We cannot also accept this idea that because she was a woman and she was Black, that in fact was a scarlet letter for her," Brown contended. "In fact, part of the reason why he attacked it was because it was a superpower as well."

Brown argued while Trump weaponized gender and race, it was also what drew many to Harris. However, after Harris lost every battleground state, Democrats have been regrouping, with some blaming external factors and others pointing to a failure to address working-class concerns.

Melanie Campbell, CEO of the National Coalition of Black Civic Participation, is concerned despite 92% of Black women voting for Harris, no Black women are candidates for the next Democratic National Committee chair. The committee organizes and strategizes for Democratic candidates at all levels.

"That is one of the things that I see that we have to address, and that is how we deal with our money, how we put our money in and make demands because we do write checks," Campbell emphasized. "The other has to do with how we find ways to fund our politics."

Campbell added exit polling showed more than 50% of white women voters supported Trump. She noted it raises the question of who is a true ally of Black women's interests.

Support for this reporting was provided by The Carnegie Corporation of New York.


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