Elected Democrats have given various explanations for why President-elect Joe Biden often outperformed other Democratic candidates during the 2020 election. Party strategists now speak privately with a sense of gloom and publicly with a tone of concern as the election results become clearer. The Biden campaign decided to put an Arizona spot featuring Republican Cindy McCain on a national rotation, for instance, after seeing its impact with voters. “And it’s messed up.”A recent Pew Research Center poll in April found just 3 percent of Latino adults use the term “Latinx,” a preferred term in Democratic campaign circles. That meant some Democrats were literally talking past their targeted voters by failing to see them as they wished to be seen.

Source: Washington Post December 21, 2020 11:01 UTC