Democratic strategist Halie Soifer said Friday that some people who stayed home in the 2016 election took their vote for granted and assumed Hillary Clinton would win the election.
“Part of it also is that the polling consistently showed her ahead,” Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, told Hill.TV’s Jamal Simmons on “What America’s Thinking.”
“I think people took for granted the fact that she would win, and perhaps didn’t think their vote would matter,” she continued. “But now we know how much it mattered.”
Soifer added that Democrats implemented “self-correction” in voter turnout for the 2018 midterm elections, which saw major Democratic gains in the House of Representatives.
“We did see a bit of a course correction in ’18 on this because the younger voter, 18-24 year-olds, was up by ten percent in the 2018 midterms compared to the 2014 midterms,” she said. “So that shows that younger voters understand their vote matters, and I think it also bodes well for what might happen in 2020.”
— Julia Manchester
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