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In reply to the discussion: Reminder: HRC lost the Electoral College by less than 100K votes spread over 3 states. [View all]bigtree
(86,013 posts)...her most reliable voters.
2016 black voters didn't coalesce behind Clinton the same way they did Obama, with Clinton earning 88% of their vote (to Trump's 8%) as compared to Obama's 93% in 2012. That being said, the overwhelming majority of African-Americans did show their support by voting for Clinton, particularly as compared to white Americans, who ultimately won Trump the election by giving him 58% of the white vote.
https://www.mic.com/articles/159402/here-s-a-break-down-of-how-african-americans-voted-in-the-2016-election
...who expected black voters to turn out like they did for the first black nominee for president? Blacks voted 88% for Hillary and it's still not good enough to keep someone from trying to make us black folks the scapegoat for white voters' failure to elect her.