r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/EnlightnedRedditor • Jul 25 '24

Country Club Thread How yall feel about this

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Idc too much for politics, just wanna know other peoples opinions on it.

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u/youngherbo Jul 25 '24

Youre right, No GOP candidate has won more than 15% of the Black vote in 60 years. I personally am VERY skeptical of polls showing Trump getting anything above that number.

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u/Gold-Bench-9219 Jul 25 '24

There are definitely reasons to believe the polls are off. Democrats have overperformed in every election since 2016, both in general and special elections. Biden himself got nearly 90% of the Black vote in 2020, and there is no reason to believe that there has been a significant shift towards Trump since then. What has really changed? Trump and his party have only gotten more overtly racist and gross.

All of those margins seems suspiciously high for Trump. The only one that could be reasonable is women just because white women vote for Trump, but Black and young voters, IMO, will not vote for Trump to those margins.

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u/atfricks Jul 25 '24

Trump pulled exactly 15% of black men in 2020, but Biden pulled 90% of black women so it rather evened out. 

I think misogyny is going to play a disturbingly high factor this election.

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u/Thepitman14 ☑️ Jul 25 '24

Ik this is anecdotal, but I have two uncles and a cousin who all want to vote trump. One doesn't vote (thank god) and the uncle and cousin are both blacker than me. I just can't understand

The cousin even admits he doesn't think democracy is a good idea, so at least he's consistent in voting for a fascist