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White People Want Trump (The Root Article) [View all]
Okay - let's get this out of the way first since it is Democratic Underground and our Political Connects who HAPPEN to be White would rather take a hot poker and put it in one ear and out the other before voting for Trump but the fact remains - white voters want Trump.
https://www.theroot.com/white-people-want-trump-1835458008
White People Want Trump
The 10,796 false or misleading statements don’t matter. The Muslim travel ban doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that his administration literally locked children in cages. That the most powerful man in the country sat in an official meeting and insisted that some black immigrants come from shithole countries doesn’t matter. Excusing white supremacist violence doesn’t matter. His ignorance of how tariffs work doesn’t matter. His lies about immigration statistics, crime, and drugs crossing the border don’t matter.
10,706 Fales or Misleading statements or as we call it in our house -
LIES
Neither does his suspiciously opaque relationship with Vladimir Putin. Or his praise for strongarm dictators. Or his buffoonish actions on the world stage. Or his insults. Or his porn-star payoffs. Or seating a foreign agent on the national security council. Or hiring neo-Nazis as advisors. Or hiring alt-right propagandists as advisors. None of it matters
White people don’t care.
Yes, Virginia. There is a white vote.
In a June 12 national survey of registered voters, Quinnipiac University pollsters matched Donald Trump against the top Democratic presidential candidates: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker. News outlets across the country including CNN, Newsweek and the Washington Post have reported on the results—namely, that Donald Trump loses against every single one of the candidates by a relatively large margin. But relatively few have mentioned that regardless of the presidential final round matchup, one thing remains true:
White people are going to vote for Trump.
White people don’t care.
Yes, Virginia. There is a white vote.
In a June 12 national survey of registered voters, Quinnipiac University pollsters matched Donald Trump against the top Democratic presidential candidates: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker. News outlets across the country including CNN, Newsweek and the Washington Post have reported on the results—namely, that Donald Trump loses against every single one of the candidates by a relatively large margin. But relatively few have mentioned that regardless of the presidential final round matchup, one thing remains true:
White people are going to vote for Trump.
YouGov / Economist Joint Poll referenced in The Root article:
https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/b0wzlf9avh/econTabReport.pdf
*Most of Trump’s support comes from white voters
*These voters do not hold a college degree
*White men in particular are in this category of Voter.
*Blacks, Asians, Hispanics - every single other 'category' would support any candidate other than Trump.
Now - I posted this in the AfAm Group for a reason. I don't vote in the Primary until June of next year.
I'm politically astute and pay attention.
As our Democratic White Allies push their candidates early in the race - take care to not attack the opponents or their supporters - also don't speak down to black voters.
Black Women Voters.
Tear your hair out, gnash your teeth, throw a tantrum - we are voting for the Democratic Candidate. It does not matter if he is gay, if he is in his 70's, she's the daughter of immigrants, she was a Republican in the 1990's, he or she has only ever been a Senator, she's a spiritualist, etc. etc. and so on and so forth.
We know - beyond a shadow of the doubt - that it was not economic anxiety.
It's the racism stupid. It was retaliation for Obama. They were 'left behind'. They were looked down upon. No one listened to them. Etc. etc.
Try being black or latin x or Asian, or a woman, or gay or on and on and on - then cry me a fucking river.
Retaliation is coming.
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