Trump’s Huge Gains With Black Men Demonstrate Power of His Populist Party Realignment
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Former President Donald Trump really is building a multiracial populist coalition that is remaking American politics.
Of all the trends on Tuesday night that stand out, one of the most remarkable ones is the shift in the black vote to the right. The shift was especially pronounced with black men.
Trump appears to have made significant inroads with black Americans, at least according to some of the preliminary exit-polling data. Several state exit polls show the former president picking up a much larger percentage of the black vote than he did in either 2020 or 2016.
Early exit polls released by CNN and Fox News showed Trump winning about 20% of black men in North Carolina and Georgia, and getting double digits among black voters in general. According to Politico, that’s a significant shift from 2020, “when Trump won 11% of black voters in Georgia and just 7% in North Carolina.”
It wasn’t just Georgia and North Carolina, however. Exit polls from NBC indicated a large shift in the black vote toward Trump in Wisconsin, as well.
“This year, Trump is pulling about 20% of the black vote, versus 78% for Harris,” NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns wrote on X. “Four years ago, Trump won only about 8% of black voters in the Badger State.”
While there will certainly be more data in the days to come, there’s little doubt that at least some shift in the black vote has taken place. That’s after years of hysterical media screeching about how Trump is a racist and that Republicans want Jim Crow 2.0.
It turns out that the man who Democrats tried to portray as fascist and Hitler in their closing arguments to the American people did very well with a long list of minorities.
Maybe the bigger issue here is the increasing irrelevancy of the corporate media to drive narratives, but that’s a longer discussion for another day.
Something is happening in American politics that goes beyond Trump doing better with black men, who have actually just followed the general trend of men leaning toward the GOP.
What Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini and others have called a “multiracial populist coalition” is remaking American politics.
No longer can racial blocs be counted on to monolithically vote Democrat. Our politics are being de-racialized, despite the relentless attempts by elite institutions to fit Americans into narrow categories and pit them against each other.
Janiyah Thomas, the Trump campaign’s director of black media, explained what Trump’s message was to black voters before the election.
“Trump and Team Trump have been dedicated to the black community, meeting in our neighborhoods, listening to our voices, hopes and fears as we work to make America great again, not only for us, but for future generations,” Thomas said in the video, according to The Hill. “To President Trump, you are not just voters. You are the heart and very soul of this great nation.”
Thomas criticized former President Barack Obama, who chastised black men for not supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.
“That isn’t empowerment; it’s intimidation. It’s a direct insult to our intelligence, and they are questioning our ability to think for ourselves,” she said. “Black people deserve a leader who empowers us, not a leader who wants to control us. We deserve more than words. We deserve a leader who delivers results. [Vice President Kamala Harris] may have broken our country, but Trump will fix it.”
Maybe, just like other Americans, there are a lot of black men who are also fed up with the chaos brought about by the Biden-Harris administration’s open-borders policies. Maybe there are black Americans who are dealing with the rising cost of living and inflation.
And while Democrats are obsessed with capital “D” diversity and cultural revolution, Trump offered them a positive vision for success.