Insight into Black voters in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE — Midterms are more than a year away, but many people in the Democratic party have said there’s a lot of work to do when it comes to reconnecting with voters. Many voters reported feeling the same way, including Milwaukee’s Black community.

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Midterms are more than a year away, but many people in the Democratic party have said there’s a lot of work to do when it comes to reconnecting with voters. Many voters reported feeling the same way, including Milwaukee’s Black community

Some Black voters in Milwaukee feel neither party is working for them

The Democratic margin in Wisconsin’s majority-Black wards dropped slightly in the presidential election from 2020 to 2024

In those wards, the Democratic vote share remains very high, but slipped 1 to 3 points in each of the past elections, according to the Marquette University Law School poll

Milwaukee-based freelance reporter Malaika Jabali, who’s studied voters in the city, specifically Black voters, for around a decade.

She wrote a story about the turnout at the polls after Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, which highlighted some of the issues important to Black voters in Milwaukee.

Jabali told us anything is possible when it comes to future elections, but what she’s hearing on the ground as a reporter is a lot of people feel neither party is working for them.

“Black people aren’t a monolith. Black voters from the North to the South to the Midwest to the West Coast — they’re going to vary,” Jabali said. “But there are some consistent themes that I think come up when you’re looking at Black Wisconsin voters in particular. There’s a strong working class sensibility here.”

According to Jabali, a lot of the Democrats’ focus has been on the middle class versus the working class, something she said Black voters are aware of.

Watch the full interview above.

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