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Did a post-election survey find that Biden in 2020 gained support from married men and veterans compared to Clinton in 2016?

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

By Lisa Freedland

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Compared to Hillary Clinton in 2016, President Joe Biden in 2020 received stronger support from married men and veterans, according to an extensive post-election survey by Pew Research. Pew found various statistically-significant shifts from its 2016 survey, including:

44% of married men voted for Biden, versus 32% for Clinton.
43% of households with military veterans voted for Biden, versus 35% for Clinton.

Pew did not include data for active-duty military.

Pew’s survey found that a shift in Hispanic support—59% of Hispanics voted for Biden, versus 66% for Clinton—was not statistically significant.

Biden, according to Pew’s analysis, also did about as well with Black voters as Clinton in 2016, winning 92% versus 91%. Blacks are “a unique group of voters for whom the contemporary Republican Party holds no discernible appeal,” a Brookings Institution analysis of the Pew data observed.

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Sources

Pew Research Behind Biden’s 2020 victory

Pew Research 2016-2020 validated voter, detailed tables

Brookings New 2020 voter data: How Biden won, how Trump kept the race close, and what it tells us about the future

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