How Will White Women Vote? It’s a Question With a
Fraught History

White and Black women have joined together to power progressive causes — from
abolition to civil rights — but it’s a tenuous alliance

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/magazine/harris-white-women-black-voters.html

With a closely contested election just days away, much attention has been paid in recent
weeks to whether enough Black men are willing to vote for a Black woman for president.
The argument goes that Black men may be the obstacle to Kamala Harris’s defeating
Donald Trump — and becoming the first female president. In a video that went viral,
former President Barack Obama chided Black men for maybe not wanting to support
Harris because she’s a woman; some polling shows her Black-male support slipping.
News networks devoted numerous segments to pundits’ raising the alarm about the
ambivalence of some Black men to a Harris presidency. Harris, responding to the concern
in the final stretch of the campaign, released her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men.”
But this framing has obscured a significant truth: Polling shows that a clear majority of
Black men, some 69 percent according to an October 2024 Times/Siena Poll, support
Harris. The only group supporting Harris at a higher rate than Black men is Black
women, at 81 percent. There is one group, however, that deserves more attention as they
could very well determine this election: white women.