Just moments ago in South Carolina,
Donald Trump accused
the sitting president
of the United States
of hating black people.
It's the only thing he's
really been good at his entire career.
You know that as being a racist
because he's a racist.
Biden spent years palling around
with notorious segregationist.
Donald Trump,
made that remark in South Carolina
while making a pitch
to the core of the Biden
coalition black voters.
Now, Donald Trump failed to mention
a few important things there.
He was the guy
who played footsie
with white nationalists
after Charlottesville.
Donald Trump
was the guy
who had to be asked over
and over again to distance himself
from David
Duke,
the literal grand
wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
And the actual Trump sales pitch to black
voters was even simpler than that.
Biden Bad. Trump good.
And I'm thrilled to be here
tonight with Crooked
Joe Biden's absolutely worst nightmare.
Hundreds of proud black
conservative Americans paid for.
You shouldn't be doing
well because, honestly,
they've done a lousy job for you.
They've done a lousy job for you.
They've been a lousy job for everybody.
But for black America.
And they have done a very poor job.
If you want strong borders,
safe neighborhoods,
rising wages, good jobs, great education,
and the return of the American dream,
then congratulations.
You are a Republican.
It's pretty simple.
Trump says that he's not going to take
the black vote for granted.
He says under the last
four years of his presidency,
he achieved
the lowest African-American unemployment
rate ever recorded.
But it turns out that's not true.
The all time low for black
unemployment was set by,
you guessed it, Joe
Biden in April of 2023
at 4.8 percentage points,
and Trump also added this.
Unlike racist Joe
Biden,
I've spent my entire life
working hand-in-hand
with black Americans to create
jobs, bill buildings,
invest in our communities.
I want to tell you,
a black worker is a great worker.
All right.
Well, let's put aside
treating black people
like a monolith,
which he did over and over again.
Donald Trump's
career has been marked
by a detailed history of racism.
He was sued in the 1970s
for housing discrimination based on race.
He settled that suit.
And Trump
also gave a pretty stunning reason
for why he says
black voters like him now.
I got indicted
for nothing for something
that is nothing.
And a lot of people said that.
That's why
the black people like
because they have been hurt so badly
and discriminated against.
I want to start with
Republican strategist chair Michael
Singleton, along with
former communications
director for Vice
President Harris
and former senior adviser
to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Ashley Etienne.
I am going to start with you, Ashley.
Thank you.
I think he needs to defend his party.
And that.
Idea that.
Trump being indicted multiple times
makes him simpatico
with black people in
this country is what.
I mean.
Here's the thing.
I couldn't be more
and I am going to take the privilege
of speaking for all black people.
I couldn't
be more offended by that statement.
And I just find it very rich.
And here's the other thing.
I just
him saying black the way that he did
it just felt mocking in some sense.
But here's here's here's there's.
A added emphasis. Yeah.
I mean, just the emphasis on the bee.
But but here's
here's the real reality is, you know,
Trump can try to to pander to black folks
while insulting us
at the same time in the same breath.
But, you know,
black folks are like any other voter.
And voters really want to know
at the end of the day,
what have you done for me lately?
And if you and that's
where Joe Biden actually
has the advantage to your point,
4% unemployment
among
African-Americans, 14%
when when Trump was president,
Joe Biden created 15 million jobs,
you know, just canceled
$1 billion in student loan debt,
which really is going to set up
a lot of black folks
to to create generational wealth.
And that's what it boils down to.
So this to me is just,
you know, is pandering.
It's it's you know, it's at its worst,
but it's not going to have
a major impact. Sure, Michael.
You know, the person
who started this organization
that Trump was speaking at
is this what he had in mind
when he created a space
And let's be honest,
there are black conservatives.
There needs to be black conservatives.
But is this what he had in mind
when he created this space? I mean, look,
I think that
African-Americans do have some dislikes
about the current iteration
of things, politically speaking.
Trump mentioned immigration issue.
We've all seen videos and clips
out of Chicago, out of New York City.
I just talked about that on Jake's show
a couple of days ago.
So there are some points
of contention there.
I do also think
that there is some points of contention
with black men in particular.
And Democrats have actually acknowledges
that they recognize
they need to work harder with black men.
Now, am I saying that
we're going to see
a plethora of black men
all of a sudden
voting for Donald Trump
beyond the 12% he received in 2020?
That's not what I'm saying.
But what I am saying
is that any decrease
in black men in key states like Georgia,
perhaps Pennsylvania,
these are key battleground states
that President Biden won
by very slim margins in 2020.
That decrease could
somehow
give Trump some level
of a mathematical advantage.
But I mean, there's all of that.
And then there's what
Trump said and did tonight.
I want to play just one more.
Oh, no.
It's a bit of what Trump said tonight.
God,
these lights are so bright in my eyes
that I can't see
too many people out there, but
I can only see the black ones.
I can't see any white ones, you see.
That's how far I've come.
That's a long that's a long way.
Is that
he's still.
We've
come a long way together.
I mean, I've.
Been I don't even know if I was.
Waiting for him
to throw gold sneakers into the audience.
Of sneakers.
I mean, speaking of the gold
sneakers, I mean,
this is part of the conversation here.
This from Trump.
You know,
I saw conservatives
complaining about Biden
going and doing that video
with black voters
and eating a meal with them.
The kids were eating fried chicken.
They call that pandering.
Is any of this
all of this pandering is
is this the right way
to reach black voters in general?
Well,
I mean, there's no doubt that there's
there's a clear problem.
The party, Democrat Party,
is having a problem with enthusiasm,
the enthusiasm gap among black
male voters in particular.
This New York Times article
not too long ago, a poll
that showed that Donald Trump's
polling at 22%
with black male
voters, with black voters,
and that set off
alarms, obviously, within the party.
But here's what I am seeing.
I've met with the party.
We sort of had a debrief about what
what lessons learned from 2020.
I was in the war room
and we were bleeding black male voters,
30 days out from the election.
Part of what we saw then, I
don't think the party is quite
yet ready to confront
in any sort of robust way.
I mean, the strategies
is quite antiquated.
They're putting $25 million on television
in these ads with the president
sitting down having dinner.
That's an antiquated strategy.
The issue really is that disinformation
is disproportionately
targeted to black voters
as well as youth voters.
And that's what we saw
dating all the way back
to the 2016 election.
U.S.
intelligence agencies are saying
it's going to only get worse this cycle.
Age is only going
to compound the situation
with these deepfakes.
So the concern is that the party for me
is that the party is not really ready
to deal with this issue.
You can try to
address it
on the margins
with these types of these dinners
and these, you know,
and ads and $25 million on television.
But the reality is
the problem is in
our feeds is the corrosion
within our feeds
that we're not ready yet to address.
A quick last word to you.
Yeah, I mean, look,
I think that black men
have legitimate concerns.
They have concerns about
the state of the economy.
They have concerns
about economic leverage.
And they don't see those answers
coming from Democrats.
And so Trump is making the message again.
It doesn't mean
that we're going to see 30% of black men
all of a sudden becoming Republicans.
But what it does mean
is that Donald
Trump is tapping into something
that I don't think we can ignore.
Well, we'll see how it works out for him.
Sure. Michael Steele.
We certainly will. Actually at ten.
Thank you both very much.