August 19, 2020

The Hill: Biden gets boost from Latino, Black voters after Harris pick: polls

Her Senate record and combative positions against Trump administration officials help explain Harris's strong level of support among Black voters, according to Henry Fernández, author of the AARC polling memo.

August 14, 2020

Chicago Tribune: Clarence Page column - With Kamala Harris in the race, is Donald Trump bringing birtherism back?

A July poll from the African American Research Collaborative similarly found that strong majorities of Black voters would be more likely to encourage friends and family to vote for Biden if he picked a Black or African American woman.

July 22, 2019

Op Ed by Jones & Fernandez -- Morning Consult: Black People Think Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Wrong and Will Vote Accordingly

Children in cages, children held by our government without access to soap, baths or toothbrushes, children caked in filth and excrement — and administration lawyers defending it all. These are not mistakes, but official policy as offered by President Donald Trump. Bizarrely it is also part of Trump’s political strategy, not just to engage his most steadfast supporters, but apparently to reach out to African American and Latino voters.

May 28, 2020

NBC News: Pattern of uneven social distancing enforcement coming into view, civil rights experts say

“This particular segment of the black population is interpreting the way that they believe they will be perceived if they wear a mask,” said Henry Fernandez, a principal at the African American Research Collective. “How rules are enforced is shaping what should be health-maintaining habits in communities of color.”

May 19, 2020

The Hill: Poll: 80 percent of African Americans say Trump has done 'fair' or 'poor' job handling coronavirus

The poll from the African American Research Collaborative (AARC) commissioned by the NAACP found that 80 percent of surveyed black Americans held a "fair" or "poor" view of the way Trump has responded to the coronavirus outbreak, while 19 percent had a positive view.

May 19, 2020

Politico: The lasting damage to black and Latino communities

The administration’s response has led to increased lack of trust among African Americans: On a scale of zero to 10, Trump ranked at the bottom of trusted messengers, below Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Anthony Fauci, and ordinary doctors and nurses, according to a poll of African Americans released today by the African American Research Collaborative. 

February 15, 2019

Houston Chronicle: In the battle for the minority vote, Julián Castro woos black voters

When Julián Castro declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination last month, he spoke of the Black Lives Matter movement and recalled Michael Brown of Ferguson, Mo. and other African Americans who died in confrontations with police.

December 04, 2018

Pittsburgh Current: Setting the Table

Long story short, because of Trump, the table may now be set for the first black woman to be President.

November 20, 2018

NewsOne: New Report - Black Voters Once Again Saved The Country In The Midterm Elections

Across competitive elections, 90 percent of Black voters supported Democratic House candidates, compared to 53 percent of voters overall. It also found 91 percent of Black women, 86 percent of Black men and 50 percent of white voters believe Trump and the GOP are using toxic rhetoric to divide the nation.

November 19, 2018

US News and World Report: Trump Drove Black Voters to the Polls – to Choose Democrats

HE'S NO BARACK OBAMA. But President Donald Trump is having his own motivating effect on African-American voters, who overwhelmingly cast votes for Democrats in this month's midterms – in large part because of the damage Trump has done to the GOP brand, according to pollsters who surveyed African-Americans immediately before the elections.

November 19, 2018

Roll Call: Black Voters Propelled Blue Wave, Study Finds

Democratic wins in the 2018 midterms were driven largely by African American voters — particularly black women — who increasingly associate the GOP with President Trump’s perceived hostility toward people of color and immigrants, according to an analysis released Monday.

November 19, 2018

The Progressive Pulse: Poll - Democrats can thank voters of color for wins across country

The key takeaway from the poll was that Democrats’ 2018 wins across the country were dependent on voters of color, particularly black voters, as a majority of white voters supported Republicans. Four out of five Black voters voted for Democrats compared to less than one-half of white voters.

August 28, 2018

The Hill: There's a boost in black turnout, especially among black women voters

Alabama, Georgia, Virginia. Over the last year strong black voter turnout in all three states drove progressive wins in a special election (Alabama), a primary (Georgia) and a general election (Virginia).

August 27, 2018

NYTimes: Frustration With Racism Is Coming to the Ballot Box

A new poll on voters’ attitudes in the nation’s most competitive House races showed that when it comes to perceptions of racism, there are two Americas — one in which people of color are distressed by President Trump’s rhetoric and policies and another in which white Americans are far less convinced that there’s a problem.

August 11, 2018

AP: Analysis - One year on, Trump still fuels racial divide

Pollster Henry Fernandez of the African-American Research Collaborative reports that black women in particular feel “disrespected” by Trump, a fact that may mean Charlottesville will come back to hurt Trump after all.

August 07, 2018

USA Today: Midterm elections: Black voters angry at Donald Trump expected to turn out in key House races, survey found

Donald Trump may not be up for re-election this fall, but a new survey shows anger at the president and a feeling of being disrespected by him is expected to drive black voters to the polls in dozens of competitive U.S. House races in November.

August 07, 2018

Roll Call: Sorry Kanye, Black Voters Don’t Buy Celebrity Trump Endorsements

Kanye West and Dennis Rodman’s recent endorsements of Donald Trump have not impressed black voters in competitive districts whose deep dissatisfaction with the president could play a “key role” in the midterms, according to a poll released Tuesday.

August 07, 2018

CNN: Trump may not be enough to swing Latino turnout Democrats' way

"If the focus of the parties and those organizations is on the predictable electorate, that would be a mistake. There are many more people who are at play who could be potential voters. It's not just a question of what will those folks do on their own, but where will investments be made to encourage people to get out to vote?"

July 24, 2018

US News & World Report: Are Minority Voters Angry Enough to Come Off the Sidelines?

Anger over Trump's immigration rhetoric and policy moves other minority groups as well, even if they are not directly affect by it, said Henry Fernandez of the African-American Research Collaborative.

June 22, 2018

Philadelphia Inquirer: Is separating children from their parents un-American? Not at all, historians say

“I think that at the core of this identification with the immigrants” for African and Native Americans in particular, he said, “is something visceral and familiar. ”

May 31, 2018

Washington Post: ‘Barbaric’: America’s cruel history of separating children from their parents

“In each case, we look back at the programs as barbaric,” Fernandez said. “History will similarly consider the Trump administration’s ripping children from their parents as an unconscionably evil government action.”

July 11, 2018

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder: America has been separating families long before Trump

“Destroying families is one of the worst things done during slavery,” said Henry Fernandez, co-founder of the African American Research Collaborative and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. “The federal government maintained these evils through the fugitive slave laws and other rules which defined African Americans as property with which a slave owner could do whatever they wanted.”

December 30, 2017

National Catholic Reporter: After year of racial tension, black voters set the tone at voting booth

Just before Alabama held a special election to pick a new senator in December, the African American Research Collaborative survey had said the state, which hadn't seen a Democrat elected to the position in 25 years, could be one of five states with congressional races where "black votes could matter."

November 30, 2017

ThinkProgress: The lesson Alabama Democrats must learn from Virginia's Election

Want proof? Let’s take a deep dive into the African American Research Collaborative (AARC) study of the 2017 Virginia election, which found that high turnout among black Virginia voters, about one-fifth of the ballots cast, were the critical edge that pushed Democrat Ralph Northam to victory over Republican Ed Gillespie.

November 16, 2017

Washington Post: Did Gillespie ads turn off African American voters in Virginia?

Surveys of African American voters leading up to Virginia’s recent elections found that Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie had surprisingly strong support among black voters in October but that he lost their votes in the final weeks of the campaign . . . 

November 18, 2017

Daily Kos: View from the Left

But Roger Vann, executive director of State Voices, noted on a reporter call this week that the effort to turn out black voters in Virginia didn't just begin in the final three weeks of the Northam campaign. There had been a years-long investment in civic engagement in the state . . . 

February 20, 2017

Washington Post: Can Trump win over African Americans? This survey suggests there’s little chance.

As February began, President Trump made a seemingly routine political gesture by convening in the White House with African American allies to mark Black History Month.

November 07, 2016

Washington Post: Too much panic over early turnout numbers for African Americans in North Carolina?

Another poll released last week by the African American Research Collaborative showed that although black voters are far less enthusiastic than they were four years ago, they believe this election is more important than the 2012 presidential election and they intend to vote.

November 07, 2016

Ebony: Poll - Black Voters Determined Despite Poor Enthusiasm for Candidates

[H]alf of respondents saying they did not like either candidate and significant numbers in each of the states surveyed saying they were more enthusiastic in 2012 than they are this year. But in all categories, respondents also emphasized that it is even more important to vote in 2016 than it was in 2012 . . . 

November 04, 2016

Huffington Post: Majority Of Black Voters Say The Stakes Are Higher In 2016

African-Americans aren’t happy about the presidential election, but then again, who is? Enthusiasm among black voters has dropped 34 points from 2012, according to new polling released Friday. But 56 percent of African-Americans ... 

November 03, 2016

Amsterdam News: Vote your interest: A unique polling of Black Americans

Voter turnout in the current election by African-Americans and criminal justice and policing were key issues in a recent poll by the African American Research Collaborative. The AARC, hosted by State Voices, is a unique collaborative consisting of pollsters, scholars, researchers and commentators . . .

November 04, 2016

Vox: The simple reason black early voting is down, and why it shouldn’t worry Democrats too much

Less than a week before the election, alarm bells went off over Hillary Clinton’s perceived “black voter problem.” A new poll conducted by the African American Research Collaborative . . .

November 07, 2016

The Hill: Do Clinton, Democrats Have a ‘Cousin Pookie’ Problem?

But a survey of 1,200 African-American voters conducted last week across the country by the African American Research Collaborative and Latino Decisions found 22 percent of respondents had already voted. Of the 78 percent of black voters yet to cast a ballot, the poll found 86 percent said they are “highly likely” to do so. Almost all said they already had or would vote in congressional races, as well.

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