President Donald Trump’s approval rating among likely black voters registered at 36 percent this week, which is a 17-point increase from the time last year, when it was only 19 percent.
Rasmussen Reports published the finding on Wednesday among its daily tracking poll results.
I’m calling it now, the black community, which has been politically irrelevant for decades, will become the most politically relevant voting group by 2020.
The greatest untapped resource in America is the black community.
Our awakening is finally happening.
Rasmussen’s determination of an upward trend in Trump’s African-American support is consistent with other survey findings.
An NAACP poll released earlier this month showed the president’s approval rating at 21 percent among blacks. The NAACP downplayed that number’s importance, of course, but it was remarkable all the same.
In early May, according to KUSI in San Diego, a Reuters poll showed Trump’s backing among black men leapt to 22 percent from 11 percent after rapper Kanye West said he was on the Trump train.
According to exit polling conducted by NBC News , Trump received just 8 percent of the African American vote in the 2016, so there is definitely a lot of room for improvement.
By contrast, the highest percentage of the African-American vote garnered by a Republican presidential candidate in recent decades is 12 percent by former Sen. Bob Dole in 1996.
In 1956, Dwight Eisenhower — who took decisive action in support of African Americans’ civil rights as president — won an impressive 39 percent of the black vote, which is the highest post World War II tally for a Republican.
In a Twitter post, Turning Point USA head Charlie Kirk predicted a landslide for Trump in 2020, if the present trend continues.
“If Trump can snag 15% of the black vote in 2020, the Democrats will have almost no chance,” Kirk tweeted.
According to the @ NAACP poll black support for @ realdonaldtrump now sits at 21%
Romney at his peak earned 6% in this poll
If Trump can snag 15% of the black vote in 2020, the Democrats will have almost no chance
Trump has repeatedly touted that his administration’s policies have helped lead to the lowest level of African-American unemployment ever recorded.
The disparity between the overall unemployment rate and black unemployment has also been the lowest on record.
Last month, frequent Fox News guest Candace Owens predicted there will be a “major black exit” from the Democrat Party in 2020.
Owens told Fox, “There is going to be a major black exit from the Democrat Party, and they are going to actually have to actually compete for their votes in 2020.”
“We are already seeing a major shift,” the Turning Point USA communications director added.
She highlighted that Trump was not considered a racist before he ran for office, and, in fact, was “loved in the hip hop” world.
Owens believes that the black community will become “the most politically relevant voting group by 2020.”
She pronounced, “Our awakening is finally happening.”
If what Owens says is true, it bodes well for Trump and the Republican Party as a whole.
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BULLSHIT!
It’s true that the Atlantic reported that 23 percent of black men and 11 percent of black women approved of Trump’s job performance in 2017, based on figures SurveyMoney provided to the magazine.
But it’s not correct to just add those two figures together to produce an average, as Breitbart did. In fact, the New York Times reported that SurveyMonkey didn’t even interview the same number of men and women.
It’s also wrong to compare those approval ratings to exit poll data from the 2016 general election to claim that Trump’s “support among blacks has doubled.” The figures don’t make for a useful comparison because they measure two different things.
The exit poll data show the percentage of black voters who preferred Trump to his presidential rivals, and the 2017 survey data show the percentage of black Americans — some voters and some not — who approve of Trump’s performance as president.
Even if the latter percentage is twice as much as the former, that does not mean that Trump’s approval rating has doubled.
Data from Gallup show that his approval among blacks declined from 15 percent between Jan. 20 and Jan. 29, 2017, to 6 percent between Dec. 25 and Dec. 31, 2017. And data from the Pew Research Center show that Trump’s approval in that demographic dropped 7 percentage points in 2017 — from 14 percent in February to 7 percent in December.
Based on a single poll lol. Based on a poll of my household I am the greatest person to ever live!