Trump and the Black Vote

American Thinker.com ^ | September 2, 2020 | Brian Noland

[Kaslin]

African Americans as a voting bloc have been completely owned by the Democrat party. It has long been considered an immutable fact that Republicans, regardless whether or not their policies were in fact something African Americans wanted or needed, were never going to break through the Democrat stranglehold. Republicans tried in vain for 60 years to recapture a voting bloc that they had lost due to a combination of bad optics and poor decisions. Then came President Trump.

Admittedly Trump didn’t win the African American vote in 2016, nor did he really fare any better than his Republican candidate predecessors for President. African Americans sided with Hillary Clinton by a 91% margin. Arguably Trump didn’t need the African American vote in 2016. The difference between Trump and folks like Mitt Romney, John McCain, and even the last Republican presidential winner George W. Bush was that Trump made an effort to court these voters with a level of earnestness not seen in a Republican President in the modern era.

I have to believe that Trump knew it wouldn’t be an easy process. Being a businessman, he had to know it was a hard sale. You had an entrenched demographic staunchly opposed to him based merely on his party affiliation and his appearance. Perhaps Trump reasoned that his good relationships with many prominent African American figures in the 1990s, people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others, would give him some credibility. Yet even Trump had to know voting blocs in the United States don’t usually shift a great deal, particularly ones along racial lines.

[Kaslin]

This Says it all:

The most recent events in Democrat cities have shown exactly how dumb the Democrat party thinks African Americans truly are. They thought blacks would be for defunding the police while rioting and looting takes place across major cities in the country. They thought they would just blindly blame Trump for the unrest without realizing these are Democrat mayors with Democrat governors openly refusing federal aid from Trump, while refusing to prosecute or even arrest rioters terrorizing their cities. They thought the African American voting bloc would never question the left’s fanatical stances on abortion, something that has never sat well with African Americans, who tend to be more religious than other voting blocs.

[kickstart]

“African Americans as a voting bloc have been completely owned by the Democrat party. “

It’stuff not being a slave once you have jumped on the plantation that takes care of all your needs.

[Alberta's Child]

They thought the African American voting bloc would never question the left’s fanatical stances on abortion, something that has never sat well with African Americans, who tend to be more religious than other voting blocs.

Well, the Democrats have been right on this one. African-Americans HAVE accepted the left's fanatical stances on abortion without so much as a whimper ... even though controlling the black population is one of the underlying goals of the abortion industry.

[circlecity]

It would be delicious irony if the black vote is what ends up putting Trump over the top.

[Avalon Memories]

I sincerely doubt that “the black vote” (or is it the Black vote; the Left’s diktats come so fast one can’t keep up) will go for Trump in any substantial numbers. History since Johnson’s Civil Rights Act clearly demonstrates that blacks like federal handouts, government jobs preferences at all levels, irresponsible men-folk, abortions, etc., in short, they are socialists no matter what they spout in their churches.

[Irish Eyes]

Let Leo Terrell explain it to them. Maybe some would listen.

[hinckley buzzard]

More American blacks are middle to upper class than in the welfare underclass. They are not stupid. They have a stake now, and something to lose, which is totally different from 1964.

They may well have taken a wait and see attitude in 2016, as did many white folks. But what they have seen since then cannot be unseen. I don’t expect anything like 30% for Trump but I would expect something like 15%.

I pointed out in 2016 that black males respect Trump as a strong no nonsense “Alpha male”. Despite the difference between black men and black women in voting, which is pronounced, the shift in the black male favorability ratings is real and has been found by pollsters consistently for over a year now.

[Avalon Memories]

The problem for me is that I don’t trust polls no matter what they say. So when it comes to blacks and their voting, I’ll wait and see.