President Biden garnered significant backing from Black voters in the 2020 election, but a recent poll suggests that this support might be waning. The New York Times/Siena poll indicates support for former President Trump among Black voters has surged by 19 points over the past four years. Some analysts suggest that Biden’s strong support for Israel and his delayed response on aid to Gazans may have influenced the changing sentiment among Black voters.
Straight Arrow News contributor Jordan Reid examines Trump’s recent speeches targeted at Black audiences and contends that he is using Black individuals as props. Reid urges all voters to scrutinize Trump’s statements — including checking for AI manipulations by his supporters — before casting their ballots.
Did you know that Black people just love Trump? You didn’t?! Hold on. He’ll tell you all about it himself. This is from a recent speech he made to a group of conservative Black voters:
“Black people are so much on my side now because they see what’s happening to me happens to them…The mug shot, we’ve all seen the mug shot — and you know who embraced it more than anyone else? The Black population.”
Alright. So Donald Trump is a racist. We know this. Tangible evidence of his racism is almost too copious to list and goes back decades. Remember that, if you will, the full-page newspaper ad he took out in 1989 in which he called for the executions of five teenagers accused of assaulting a white jogger in Central Park? Yeah, so those kids were later exonerated, but Trump’s only post-exoneration statement was that you “have people on both sides.” Echoes of Charlottesville.
It’s no secret that the Trump campaign is actively seeking Black support in his bid for a second term. In 2019, in one of many, many examples of Trump’s efforts to “connect” with Black voters, Trump likened the way he was being treated to a “lynching.”