Black voters, Latino voters and other voters of color show solidarity at the ballot box

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Efrén Pérez, University of California, Los Angeles

(THE CONVERSATION) Shortly before Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential candidate, several national polls and primary voting results indicated that Donald Trump had peeled away one of the party’s most reliable voting blocs – people of color.

Such was the case with polls suggesting that Trump was expected to win more Black votes than any other GOP candidate in modern history. Other polls suggested that more Hispanic voters were supporting Trump despite his anti-immigration policies and often racist rhetoric.

Each of these apparent political shifts came at a time during the Democratic primaries when President Biden was losing the support...