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Blacks For Trump: The Growing Concern In 2024

- why are African-Americans edging toward Trump and away from Biden?

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A growing demographic of Blacks for Trump is causing grave concern for the 2024 presidential election.

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Traditionally, Black Americans have widely supported Democratic candidates for president. Or, some have stayed home and either forgotten or purposely refused to vote for anyone. However, Democrats are beginning to sound the alarm over news that African-American voters are joining the Trump/MAGA bandwagon in shocking numbers.

Blacks For Trump

According to a new poll conducted by The New York Times and Sienna College, Black voters — long a bulwark for Democrats and for President Joe Biden — are now registering 22% support for Donald Trump in such battleground states as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. This coincides with a CNN Poll from September which discovered that Mr. Biden was surprisingly losing ground among Black voters.

In fact, the poll states that if the election were held today, Trump would beat Biden 52% to 41% in Nevada, 49% to 43% in Georgia, 49% to 44% in Arizona, 48% to 43% in Michigan, and 48% to 44% in Pennsylvania.

These numbers are unprecedented for a Republican presidential candidate among Black voters in modern times.

So, what’s behind this new ‘Blacks for Trump’ movement and their infatuation with the MAGA agenda? 

Blacks For Trump

Some Black voters listed President Biden’s age as a negative (although Mr. Biden is only 3 years older than Donald Trump). Others said they trusted Trump more than Biden on the economy, foreign policy, and immigration. However, it appears that a trend to go against the grain, Trump’s “bad-ass” image, as well as overall ignorance of how a 2nd Trump term could set America (and, specifically, Black Americans) back by decades, is widely to blame for this magical Blacks for Trump crusade.

Last weekend, former NFL players and twin brothers Maurkice and Mike Pouncey were photographed at Mar-a-Lago smiling while waiting “to see Trump.” About a week earlier, rappers Waka Flocka Flame and Sexyy Red became the most recent members of the hip-hop community to express solidarity with and support for Trump. They, of course, join Kanye West, Ice Cube, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, and 6ix9ine on the Trump/MAGA train.

According to Donald Trump, he believes his mugshot after being indicted for trying to overturn the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia is what “quadrupled” his support among Black voters. Some have called his opinion “a racist narrative” that was introduced by conservatives who believe Blacks love criminality and commiserate with Trump out of shared victimization from an unfair criminal justice system. However, others are correctly questioning why the growing Blacks for Trump movement is primarily made up of younger African-Americans who are either active members of the hip-hop community or greatly identify with it.

Should there be cause for concern with the presidential election about a year away?

Blacks For Trump
David Axelrod

“Coming off those historic midterms, President Biden’s campaign is hard at work reaching and mobilizing our diverse, winning coalition of voters one year out on the choice between our winning, popular agenda and MAGA Republicans’ unpopular extremism,” Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Muñoz said in a statement. “We’ll win in 2024 by putting our heads down and doing the work, not by fretting about a poll.”

However, David Axelrod, who served as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama, is saying that the poll numbers are so disturbing that he now believes Mr. Biden should drop out of the race and allow some other Democrat to seize the nomination.

“Trump is a dangerous, unhinged demagogue whose brazen disdain for the rules, [norms], laws and institutions of democracy should be disqualifying,” Axelrod tweeted on Sunday. “But the stakes of miscalculation here are too dramatic to ignore.

“Only @JoeBiden can make this decision,” he continued. “If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it’s in HIS best interest or the country’s?”

Is this new ‘Blacks for Trump’ shift merely a fad that won’t end up affecting the actual numbers of Black support for Mr. Biden? Is President Biden’s age and perception of being “old” a big enough concern that Democrats should address sooner than later? Or, is Joe Biden still the Democrat with the best chance of beating Donald Trump in 2024?


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Truthiz1

Regular readers know how I feel about polls. Given their track record since Obama ran in 2008, I generally pay them no mind. And their predictions have gone down hill from there, the most recent being the 2022 Midterm elections. The Republican “Red Wave” or “Red Tsunami” that was a sure thing..(rolling my eyes)..Lol.

The results didn’t even amount to a Red trickle. But 2 days later there they were, cable news, right back at it…shoving bullsh*t polls in our faces…smh!

Mr.BD

Everybody has been talking about this poll all day and frankly I do not believe it. I do believe some of the young hip hop crowd is going with Trump. They made a lot of money and are in a different tax bracket now which is their reason. But too many people know better to put that fool back in. I am not taking it for granted but I do not think Trump is a shoe in.

Mr.BD

I do have to say Biden’s age is a problem. He looks and walks old and it is a perception thing. Trump is old too but he does not look like it. If we get into next year and Biden keeps falling apart maybe they should get somebody else. I really do not know who that would be but it probably is not Kamala Harris. If she is ever president she probably has to go away for a term then come back in 2028.

Truthiz1

Polls are now the weapons rich and powerful people use via the news media they own to control Us by controlling the narrative and keep Us distracted with Fear, Anxiety, Hate, Depression, Racism, Division and Paranoia.

That said.

I would posit that most Rich Blacks are no different than most rich whites when it comes to worshiping at the altar of money, meaning, Tax cuts. And too many young Black and White males are enamored with trash-talking, serial lying, FAKE Alphas.

But Blacks know Trump is a hard core Racist. Yes he will get a few Black votes. But only a few. Not 22%. I will have to see it to believe it!

Mr.BD

Hey Truth somebody at work just said something interesting. The news media has to make it a close race to keep everybody watching and buying the news. If they say this far out it is over for Trump nobody will pay attention to politics. They will make no money if they do that.

Truthiz1

I don’t disagree with that thinking BD. Yes, the news media peddles a bunch of BS to try to keep people watching. But it’s also about more than that BD.

When Americans are so divided and so filled with fear and Anxiety and Hating each other to the point that twisted people who are jacked up in the head think nothing of taking to the streets with high powered assault weapons in hand determined to kill other Americans, even children, that’s about something more insidious at play BD.

And the American news media is at the center of all of it.

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