Donald Trump has an uncanny ability to make arguments that come back to bite him years later in a particularly personal way: the Electoral College is bad, presidents shouldn’t play too much golf, parents of immigrants shouldn’t be given visas. Here’s another one for the list: People with felony convictions shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
And while Democratic-leaning Black Americans are overrepresented in prison, people who have been convicted of a felony, on the whole, are overwhelmingly male and non-college educated and largely white — all groups that are increasingly likely to vote Republican, especially for Trump. A first-of-its-kind survey in 2020 even found white people in prison at the time backed Trump over a Democratic candidate by about 15 points.