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Will Black people turn out for the Democratic Party? Why is Biden losing the support of Black men? Are Black voters really embracing the GOP? Who will stop Candace Owens’ Blexit movement now that Diddy, Charlamagne and the Shade Room are no longer on the proverbial “Democratic Plantation?”
These are the questions that need answering.
But, as the 2024 election cycle gradually shifts into high gear, your favorite pundits, political analysts and professional commentators are finding new ways to discuss and dissect the upcoming presidential sweepstakes. As usual, these pseudo-soothsayers have settled on one segment of the electorate as the most important factor in what could be the season finale of American-style democracy.
The “Black vote.”
According to Newsweek, Donald Trump is poised to win more Black votes than any Republican in history, and Pew Research notes that “Black voters could play an important role in determining the outcome of key 2024 elections, including for U.S. president.” Even though an October poll found that nearly four out of five Black voters wouldn’t vote for Donald Trump, the New York Times chose to characterize less than 100 Black Trump supporters scattered across six stats as a national negro “drift to Trump.” To be fair, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., may have just been repeating something he heard at a high school dance when he recently bragged: “There’s a Julio and Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement.”
Let’s get this out of the way: Black people are not going to vote for a Republican. It ain’t gonna happen.
Nearly a century has passed since a Republican presidential nominee even came close to winning a majority of the Black vote (Herbert Hoover in 1928 was the last). It is asinine, bordering on malpractice, for a journalist to…
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