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In 2016, Donald Trump won the white vote 57% to Hillary Clinton’s 37%, including white women 52% to 43%. (Who can forget, “I want a woman president, just not this one...”)
In 2020, Donald Trump won the white vote 58% to Joe Biden’s 41%, including white women 55% to 44%. Trump actually did better with white voters in this election despite the Democratic nominee being a boring old white guy.
A significant difference between Trump winning and losing was that white voters were 74% of the 2016 electorate but only 72% in 2020, according to data firm Catalist. And it’s part of a longer trend—with white voters making up 76% of the 2012 electorate and 77% in 2008—that doesn’t bode well for Republicans.
