MSNBC’s Kornacki highlights stark divide between Trump and Harris voter demographics and values ​​– IJR

NBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki on Sunday detailed the demographic divide between President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, highlighting the stark contrast between the types of voters who now lean towards the Republican Party.

After the election results, Democrats appeared perplexed by Trump’s popularity among some of their key voting blocs, such as black and Hispanic men. As Harris tried to attract more voters, she was heavily criticized for vague answers in interviews and for appeasing voting blocs with race-based policy proposals.

Unity on Americans’ core values ​​has declined significantly among Republicans, Democrats and independents since 9/11. Kornacki pointed out on “Meet the Press” that eight in 10 voters surveyed by the network believe the United States is more “greatly divided” than united. However, after 9/11, 74% of Democrats and 81% of Republicans agreed that the country was united on the “most important values,” compared to just 19% of Democrats and 15% of Republicans who said they believed the country was united. . “It hasn’t always been this way,” Kornacki said of the division.

Assessing other demographic divisions, Kornacki said: “In this election, Trump won men by 12, Harris won women by 8, a gender gap of 20 points. For the third election in a row, the gender gap was at least 20 points. We see it on marriage, married voters largely for Trump, and single voters largely for Harris.

Kornacki explained how Trump won white voters without a college degree by 34 points, while Harris only won by eight points among white voters with a degree.

“That’s over 3,100 counties and you think about these demographic divides, Trump sorting out the blue-collar voters, the voters, you know, the white voters without a college degree. You see this in many rural areas, in many sparsely populated counties all over the country. Look at all that red,” Kornacki added.

Kornacki then showed a map of the election results, noting that Democrats performed well among college-educated voters, both in the suburbs and among “city dwellers.”

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The political correspondent then noted that the outlet may have found “two of the most polar opposite demographics,” pointing out that a wealthy area of ​​Chicago, previously home to former President Barack Obama, voted overwhelmingly for Harris, then as one of the poorest areas in the country strongly supported Trump.

“We might have found the two most demographically opposite areas in the country. I just want to show them to you here. One of them is Hyde Park in Chicago,” Kornacki said. “It’s high-end. This is where Barack Obama comes from. High median income. Everyone has a college degree, a high school diploma. Look at that, more than three quarters have a postgraduate degree in this constituency. Harris wins overwhelmingly.

“The other side of the divide here. Take a look here. We are in Panther, West Virginia, in the McDowell colony, one of the poorest in the country. Here, we don’t even see half of the residents with a high school diploma, no one with a college degree. Donald Trump wins with 92 points, by a very large margin,” added Kornacki.

Exit polls showed that while Harris won 77% of black voters nationwide, Trump garnered 21% of support, up two points from his 2020 results, according to Reuters. Additionally, Trump won 46% of the Hispanic vote nationwide, a 14-point increase from 2020 poll results, and captured 54% of Hispanic men, compared to Harris’ 44%, gaining 18 points per compared to 2020, the media reported.