D.C. has 670,000 people and only 2,000 Republicans voted in their primary. Weird how the people closest to government seem to not like Republicans.
Most government employees don’t live in DC specifically. The government is also FULL of Republicans. However they’re “classical” Republicans for the most part. Also, a surprising number of those republicans think the government is inefficient and lazy, but they are also the laziest and most inefficient of all employees.
- former government employee with Republican parents who worked all 30 years of their career in government.
So basically people like Stan on “American Dad”. Bush/Reagan era Republicans.
The majority population in DC proper are people of colour. And the types of white Folx in the city are way more progressive than your average American.
Black or African American (non-hispanic) (43.9%) White (non-hispanic) (36.7%) Other (Hispanic) (4.23%) Asian (non-hispanic) (4.03%) White (Hispanic) (3.8%)
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/washington-dc/
Of the top five groups, whites only make up like 40%.
So this turn out is exactly right.
d.c. has never, ever awarded its electoral votes to a republican candidate.
Haley took 63% of the GOP primary vote to 33% for Trump. Just over 2,000 D.C. Republicans cast ballots. Because Haley got more than half of the vote, she came away with the district’s 19 delegates.
Washington’s moderate set of Republicans, many of whom work in politics or government, are seen as vastly different than those in other early states like South Carolina and Iowa, which set up a scenario where Haley had her first legitimate chance of notching a victory. Trump got just 14% of the vote in Washington’s 2016 primary.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Haley, who won the district primary over former President Donald Trump, has for weeks pledged to stay in the race through Super Tuesday, when 15 states and American Samoa will hold nominating contests.
“It could be anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 voters,” district GOP chair Patrick Mara predicted in an interview with NBC News last week.
Mara said the campaigns for both Haley and Trump were sending text messages and doing phone calls to inspire turnout ahead of the primary, even having some volunteers go door-to-door.
The primary is run by the local Republican Party rather than the state, which is common in other nominating contests, with just one polling location at the Madison Hotel.
He said Trump’s dominance in early primary states and the perception that the Republican nominating process also impacted low turnout.
“The average Washington Republican is politically astute and more media-savvy, they have seen coverage telling people the race is over,” Mara said.
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