Black voters have been a steady foundation for Democratic candidates for decades, but that support appeared to show a few cracks in this year's elections.
Piroleau said she felt Democrats were pushing for more reliance on government programs. “That bothered me,” she said.
She said she felt Democrats were trying to control what her children should be exposed to and how they should be educated.Camilla Moore, chair of the Georgia Black Republican Council, said a large percentage of the voters Kemp won in the Black community “were actually Black Democrats.” Those voters made decisions based on Kemp’s performance in addressing issues they care about, Moore said.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and the author of a book on the voting rights movement, said Black voters need to hear from Democrats about why their vote is important and what the party will do for them.