Trump often heralds his improved standing among Black voters on the trail. He won just 8 percent of Black voters nationally in 2020 and 6 percent in 2016, but polls have shown him with increased support, particularly in crucial battleground states. “I think that’s why the Black people are so much on my side now,” Mr. Trump said at a gala hosted by the Black Conservative Federation in Columbia, S.C. “Because they see what’s happening to me happens to them. Does that make sense?”At another point in his speech, he suggested that Black voters had warmed to him “because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as, I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing.”Mr. Trump has long used “law and order” to rally his conservative base, as well as coded racist language to attack political opponents.

Source: New York Times February 24, 2024 14:29 UTC