Ahead of the 2020 vote, the Poor People’s Campaign launched an historic nonpartisan voter outreach drive across 16 states, reaching over 2.1 million voters. The report examines this drive and the role of poor and low-income voters in the 2020 elections and concludes that this multiracial voting bloc had an important impact on the results. This cuts against the commonly held perspective that poor and low-income people are apathetic about politics or inconsequential to election outcomes, and shows the critical potential of this “sleeping giant” for elections to come, if poor and low-income people are organized into a moral fusion movement that votes.
