How is identity politics impacting the 2020 presidential election?

In this week’s episode of Politics In Question, Perry Bacon Jr. joins Julia, Lee, and James to discuss race, Joe Biden, and the 2020 presidential election. Bacon is a senior writer for FiveThirtyEight and the author of a recent piece that considers five theories which may account for differences in how identity politics influenced the 2016 and 2020 elections.

What is identity politics? Did it hurt Hillary Clinton and benefit Donald Trump in 2016? Why has identity politics impacted Biden’s candidacy differently in 2020? What explains the recent shift of white Americans on race? These are some of the questions Perry, Julia, Lee, and James discuss on this week’s episode.

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Show Notes

Perry Bacon Jr., “How Biden Is Winning An Identity Politics Election So Far,” FiveThirtyEight (July 10, 2020).

James Wallner, “Make America Diverse Again,” Law & Liberty (June 11, 2019).