Analysts and the two major parties are starting to dissect what contributed to the results in Tuesday’s election.
Vice President Kamala Harris failed in her quest to become president and the results were also brutal for Democrats across the country. Even in New Jersey, usually a reliable state for Democrats, Republicans made inroads with key voting blocs.
Aside from the economy and being tied to the Biden presidency, political experts say race and gender may have played pivotal roles in Harris’ defeat, including an unconscious racial bias even when voters said, or believed, that it wasn’t a factor.
NJ Spotlight News spoke with Hyacinth Miller, a professor and expert on Black women in politics at Rutgers University-Newark, about how unconscious racial bias may have kept some voters from backing Harris.
