Black Voters Are Coming for Trump
They shouldn’t lose hope. They are at the heart of the fight to take back America.
By Juan Williams Mr. Williams is a Fox News analyst. June 3, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
… President Trump, too, recognizes the power of the black vote. Today he continues putting his attention and campaign money into diminishing the impact of black voters. First, he wants to attract more than the 8 percent of the black vote he won in 2016. But if he can’t get them to vote for him, he’d like to keep them from voting at all.
And [blacks are] smart and they picked up on it like you wouldn’t believe. And you know what else? They didn’t come out to vote for Hillary. They didn’t come out. And that was big — so thank you to the African-American community.
Donald Trump, December 15, 2016
Contrary to the image created by news coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests, 43 percent of black voters are moderates. A quarter identify as conservatives. These are the black people in church on Sunday. They are proud members of a sorority or fraternity.
Russian trolls recognized the power of these voters. “No single group” was targeted more than African-Americans, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report on interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The Russians wanted to drive down black enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton. But they also worked to deepen the black-white divide to increase white turnout for the Republican Party. The strategy seems to have succeeded.
Their bots and trolls depicted black Americans as synonymous with the loudest activists in the Black Lives Matter movement. They amplified Mr. Trump’s tactic of appealing to “forgotten” white voters by demonizing blacks and Latinos, suggesting they bring crime and bad schools into white neighborhoods and contribute to the flight of American jobs.
For black voters, the prospect of four more years of this administration is about more than politics. It’s personal.
Juan Williams
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The police action against protesters cleared the way for Trump to walk from the White House to nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church along with other officials including U.S. Attorney General William Barr. The security forces that moved against protesters at the White House included National Guard military police, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security police as well as District of Columbia police. Read more HERE.