Donald Trump's Delusional Dreams Of Getting Black Votes
By John Russell
Donald Trump has said more than once that he can get up to 25% of the black vote. Someone operating under that level of delusion probably shouldn't have a driver's license or operate a weed whacker, let alone be a major party nominee for president of the United States.
Trump has a big big problem, one that didn't come up much, for obvious reasons, during the Republican campaign.
Interestingly, we seem the same surety in Trump here that we see in the presidential campaign. He interrupts the interviewer and repeats disproven lies. ( In particular he repeats the debunked assertion that Obama's grandmother said he was born in Kenya. ) Trump in this clip is the same exact blowhard we have seen for the past year.
This is a YYYUUUGGE problem for Trump.
I will be shocked if the Hillary campaign, and her many surrogates, don't make Trump's birther crusade a major issue in the fall campaign. He is incredibly vulnerable. It calls into question his judgement. It calls into question his ability to analyze facts. It calls into question his proclivity to attach himself to conspiracy theories.
But it is going to get worse for Trump. President Obama is going to campaign for Hillary Clinton and it is impossible to believe that he will not go after Trump for Trump's birther obsession. The sarcastic humor to come from this has the potential to dominate news cycles. Obama is already twice as smart as Trump about these things, and with extra motivation it is going to be something to see.
Trump will never get any more of the black vote beyond those who always vote Republican. The black community will not deny President Obama his last wish, and his revenge.
If I were Clinton I would be making sure I had Goldie Taylor's permission to use this video and start preparing it for regular rotation among the campaign ads.
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The chickens will come home to roost for Trump.
Trump is going to do well with the blacks no doubt about that.
If you call 10% good.
Trump is going to do well with the blacks no doubt about that.
You are a good little Trumpian already.
Now you're being too critical John. As Trump and all of his supporters know Black people are not real people. They are just "the blacks". Sort of like a football team. I hear he's going to do well among The Muslims, The Hispanics, The Indians (otherwise know as The Browns (both kinds. Native Americans and those from India (the non Muslim ones))) and all of the other non-Whites too.
Trump told an interviewer today that he is doing great with the black vote, saying that "I won with blacks".
What he doesn't say is that only 10% or less of blacks would ever vote in a Republican primary. He "won" in a very small pool. Completely irrelevant in the general.
If you check the polls on Trump with black, Hispanics and Indians he is in the toilet.
And minorities make up far too much of the electorate to win without them. He has insulted just about every group, so if he is counting on just saying "Oops! Sorry! I didn't mean what I said in the primaries! Let's just forget that and start over, OK?" and all will be well, he'd better count again.
If you check the polls on Trump with black, Hispanics and Indians he is in the toilet.
I believe I've read that he's way behind with women as well.
Hillary's lead with white women makes her the sexist & racist favorite ... a veritable shoe-in !
CNN contributor Van Jones has taken to Facebook with a video in which he warns that Trump is likely to win the election because of his mastery of the new social media landscape of today. This might be true, but his electoral math is more interesting:
Let this sink in slowly. Ensuring that Democrats continue to receive black votes in a monolithic block, it is in their interest for blacks to remain poor and resentful, which is why agitators like Jones work overtime to keep racism alive and boiling. If blacks in larger numbers entered the middle class, more of them would likely start voting Republican. No wonder the left makes sure to reinforce the idea that your skin color or ethnicity should determine your ideology and your vote, and why dissenters like Clarence Thomas are demonized. It’s rare to see this implicitly acknowledged. Jones is right to be scared.
8 years of the Obama economy has done a great job of keeping poor and resentful. Mission Accomplished Barack!
The importance of Trump's birtherism goes beyond how blacks will vote, although it certainly impacts that vote.
Trump's role as the head birther calls into serious question his honesty, his judgement, his proclivity to conspiracy theories, his sense of fairness.
Trump is going to get pounded with this subject, and rightfully so. Lawrence O'Donnell led off his show tonight with a rundown on Trump's career as a birther.
And then, Obama is going to unload on him about it, which is going to be a lot of fun.
A poll last October showed 62% of Trump supporters were birthers. That is a big reason why he won the Republican primaries right there.
Maybe if he gives a speech in a "Negro" dialect....