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Behind Biden’s 2020 Victory
Despite higher turnout, wide disparities by age and race in voting persist
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- Behind Biden’s 2020 Victory
- Voters who voted in 2018 but not 2016 favored Biden in 2020
- The gender gap narrowed among White voters
- As in 2016 and 2018, wide educational differences among 2020 voters
- Biden substantially increased Democratic support among independents from 2016
- Young voters were a strong group for the Democrats, but less so than in 2018
- Democrats gained among suburban voters in 2018 and 2020
- Stable voting patterns among most religious groups
- Biden’s voters more racially and ethnically diverse than Trump’s, but GOP voters slightly less likely to be White in 2020 than in 2016
- Higher share of Biden’s voters were from suburban areas compared with Clinton
- Differences in educational attainment of Trump, Biden coalitions
- Nearly half of Biden’s voters were younger than 50
- Catholics were about one-fifth of both candidates’ voters in 2020
- White evangelical Protestants constituted roughly a third of voters for Republican candidates in the past three elections
- Large share of voters cast a ballot by absentee or mail in the 2020 election
- Black voters were more likely than others to cast ballots in person before Election Day in 2020
- Sizable divides in candidate support by vote method
- Despite higher turnout, wide disparities by age and race in voting persist
- As in 2016, voters in 2020 had higher incomes and more formal education than nonvoters