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Here's what he & they are

artappraiser — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 22:16:38 +0000

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Here's what he & they are after with this shtick, picking off black males here and there in the right geographic areas:

[....] Doug Heye, a Republican strategist and former spokesman for the RNC, said such events could boost Trump’s 2020 chances even if they only win over a few voters.

“He doesn’t need to make major inroads with minority voters. He just needs a few cul-de-sacs here and there,” he said. “If you can just peel off some voters here and there, then you’re changing maps.”

Touré, a cultural critic and host of podcast “The Touré Show,” said Trump could peel off a few minority male voters based on the personality traits that have been so controversial with the broader public. He said Trump’s allegiance with rapper Kanye West is rooted in their shared egoistic and contrarian personalities, rather than policy.

“There’s an unbridled id to him,” he said. [....]

from Trump courts minority men with mix of policy and personal appeals

by Toulouse Olorunnipa and Ashley Parker @ WashingtonPost.com, Feb.27

The case for taking Trump’s

artappraiser — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 04:09:07 +0000

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The case for taking Trump’s black outreach seriously

There’s some evidence Democrats have lost ground with black voters.

By Matthew Yglesias @ Vox.com, Nov 13, 2019, 9:00am EST

Black Voices for Trump launched earlier this month with a splashy event at the Georgia World Congress Center featuring HUD Secretary Ben Carson, pizza impresario Herman Cain, social media personalities (whatever that means) Diamond & Silk, and President Trump himself, who vowed “to campaign for every last African-American vote in 2020.”

Republicans have struggled with black voters for generations now. And given Trump’s well-documented history of racism, he seems like an awfully unlikely leader to turn the trend around. So much so that the event was largely noted in progressive circles for the fact that some of the attendees decked out in MAGA gear were, in fact, white.

Peter Baker, doing news analysis for the New York Times, tried to make sense of the whole thing by positing that the outreach “appeared aimed at reassuring suburban white voters discomfited by his use of racist tropes and incendiary language” rather than being an actual effort to “expand the president’s meager support among African-Americans.”

But even though Trump’s outreach to black voters is overwhelmingly tacky and ridiculous, it shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. After all, Trump’s courting of white working-class voters is tacky and ridiculous, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work.

Even a very successful outreach, though, will still leave Trump losing badly among black voters, who overwhelmingly do not support him. But it also means that Trump’s got nowhere to go but up. And the bulk of the evidence suggests that support among black voters has in fact gone up and may rise even further depending on how the rest of the 2020 cycle plays out.

Democrats have been slipping with black voters [....]

Inside the Summit for Trump

artappraiser — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 04:00:12 +0000

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Inside the Summit for Trump-Loving Young Black Conservatives

The president has alienated many African Americans—but not these young activists.

By LJ DAWSON @ Politico Magazine, October 06, 2019

As a crowd listened to President Donald Trump speak in the East Room on Friday, chants of “USA” and “four more years” reverberated amid the gold drapes and crystal chandeliers. There were curiously no MAGA hats. But one woman was wearing a “Black AF” pin on her gray suit.

In attendance were some of the hundreds of young black conservatives who came to Washington this past week as a show to liberal America that African Americans can be conservative and support Trump—that the conservative movement is not just for old white men.

“The media narrative is that African Americans don’t support the president,” said R.C. Maxwell, a 31-year-old Republican consultant. “We are happy to demonstrate that there is a larger African-American community that appreciates the job that the president has done.”

These young people, including Maxwell, had traveled to the capital for the second annual Black Leadership Summit, put on by Turning Point USA, a national conservative, often Trump-aligned campus group. More than 400 people from across the country attended, a Turning Point representative said. And the three-day summit featured 17 speakers, including YouTube stars, pastors, a Breitbart News editor—and an address from the president himself. Speakers pushed a “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” narrative, and panels touched on conservative values like free markets, gun rights and the Bible. Attendees were encouraged to organize as conservatives and go back to their communities as leaders to help change the norm for black voters.

“This is the herculean effort of the century,” Charlie Kirk, Turning Point‘s 25-year-old founder and executive director, said in an interview. “How can you get black America to think differently ideologically?”

That’s, of course, a tall order. Only 8 percent of black voters identify in some way with the Republican Party, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey. And in a recent AP-NORC poll, only 4 percent of black people said they think Trump’s actions have been good for African Americans. Young people, too—more than two-thirds of them, according to a recent Harvard IOP poll of 18- to 29-year-olds—overwhelmingly disapprove of the president [....]

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artappraiser — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 03:56:17 +0000

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