President Biden has a tougher road to victory in 2024 than the eventual Republican nominee because Mr. Biden needs to win a supermajority of moderate voters in battleground states, according to a new analysis by a Washington think tank.
The centrist group Third Way said a review of presidential elections dating back to 1980 shows that liberal voters make up a smaller share of the Democratic candidate’s base than conservative voters do for the GOP nominee.
Political analyst Lucas Holtz said voters who identified as “very conservative” in the 2020 election made up nearly one-third of President Donald Trump’s coalition in each of 10 battleground states. But voters who identified as “very liberal” made up only around 20% of Mr. Biden’s coalition in those states.
The report concluded that self-described conservative voters accounted for 70% of Mr. Trump’s overall coalition, while liberals made up half of Mr. Biden’s voters. The only exception in the past 42 years came in 2012 when President Barack Obama won reelection with 56% of moderate voters. In 2008, Mr. Obama won 60% of moderate voters; President Bill Clinton won 61% of moderates in 1992 and 62% of them in 1996.
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