The report found that Republican attempts to tie moderate Democrats to the left's most extreme and unpopular elements, such as calls to defund the police, worked.
“While we may have saved our democracy in 2020, we didn’t do as well as we should have,” said Quentin James, the founder and president of Collective PAC, a Democratic group that focuses on black voters and co-sponsored the new analysis. “Democrats must seriously address this problem while we still have time.”
Up until the eve of the election last year, Democrats expected to expand their House majority, but instead lost nearly all of the most competitive congressional races in the country and held on to control of the chamber by razor-thin margins. Democrats took control of the Senate, thanks to two January run off elections in Georgia.
In addition to faulting polling that fueled Democrats’ overly rosy expectations and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, theirfound that a drop off in support from some minorities likely cost the party some key races in places like California, Texas and Florida. But the report argues that minority voters need to be persuaded, too, both to vote for Democrats and to vote at all, since many often feel their vote won’t matter. Activists like Stacey Abrams have been pushing Democrats to stop viewing Black voters as simply needing to be motivated to show up.
For instance, working-class and noncollege educated Hispanics saw a drop in support for Democrats, mirroring the trend among whites. Voters of Filipino and Vietnamese descent in Southern California trended Republican at higher rates than other Asian-Americans. The report argues the"defund the police" attacks were toxic because Republicans was able convince some voters that Democrats cared more about kowtowing to a narrow band of activists or going after Trump than helping average voters solve kitchen-table issues.
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