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Women of Color Ready to Claim 2020 as Their Election Year

Katherine Gypson

   MIAMI, FLORIDA - Women of color may be better positioned than most
   groups of voters in the country to hand President Donald Trump a loss
   in the 2020 presidential election, experts say.

   One out of every four voters in Florida, Texas, Arizona and Georgia --
   states with significant shares of electoral votes -- is a woman of
   color. In the 2018 congressional midterm elections, black females
   helped drive the so-called "blue wave" of Democratic votes, flipping
   the U.S. House of Representatives away from Republican control. Their
   showing of 55 percent of eligible voters outpaced the national turnout
   rate by 6 percentage points.

   But as a diverse group of women gathered this week in Miami to watch
   the Democratic debates and mark the official kickoff of election
   season, another number could not be ignored. In 2016, Democratic
   presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lost Florida -- and its critical
   29 electoral votes -- to Trump by just 112,000 popular votes. Black
   voter turnout in Florida dropped more than 3percentage points in 2016
   from the previous presidential election in 2012, part of an overall
   nationwide decline in voter turnout among African-Americans and Latinos
   in that election.

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