The former president’s leading Black surrogates are trying to boost his support in a deep blue city.
Rep. Byron Donalds smokes a cigar at a panel discussion event in Philadelphia on Tuesday. | Brakkton Booker/POLITICOPHILADELPHIA — A smoke-drenched cigar bar nestled in an overwhelmingly liberal neighborhood in the bluest of cites made for an unlikely setting for Republicans to make their case to a group of voters that have long eluded their party: Black men.Wesley Hunt
“We were better off under Republicans than we were Democrats,” Hunt said, leaning forward in his seat on an elevated platform, to get closer to the crowd of about 100 people gathered at The Cigar Code. “The reason why the Democrats have a hold on the Black community is because our parents’ parents’ parents keep telling us, ‘You got to vote Democrat.
Donalds and Hunt pointed to mounting evidence in public surveys that suggest an erosion in Biden’s support among Black and Hispanic voters. A recentpoll of five key swing states found more than one in five Black voters would vote for Trump in a head to head with Biden. The president held a campaign rally at the predominantly Black Girard College just last week with Vice President Kamala Harris, highlighting the ways their administration had made the lives of Black Americans better, including by creating programs to forgive student loan debt and encourage business ownership. Biden also used that as an opportunity to tear into Trump’s record on race, reminding them that “Trump is the same guy who unleashed the birtherism lie against Barack.
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