GOP Poised to Win
Minority Vote in 2020, by Conservative Zone, 1/7/19.
During the run-up to the
2016 election, President Donald Trump asked
African-American voters a simple question: “What have you got to lose?”
For those not
brainwashed by the fake news media’s tired old claims of racism, homophobia,
sexism, etc., etc., the question was something of a head-turner. What did
African-Americans have to lose by putting a populist Republican in the White
House? The answer is nothing.
When
the country’s first African-American president took office, the group was in
the midst of long-standing joblessness of 9.1 percent. Things got dramatically
worse as the Obama Administration pushed through a climate change agenda that
level job-killing regulations. In just two years, African-Americans were widely
disenfranchised as they suffered a 16.6 percent peak. Double-digit unemployment
dogged African-Americans for 81 of 96 months during Obama’s presidency. Despite
many African-Americans struggling with low incomes, joblessness, and high-crime
communities, President Trump received only 8 percent of their vote. However,
things have changed.
These
days, African-American unemployment hovers around 6 percent, and all-time lows
have been registered due to the America First policies and the landmark Tax
Cuts and Jobs Act passed by the GOP and signed into law by Trump. Led by the
president, the GOP has done the people’s business, and African-Americans are
suddenly benefiting from conservative policies at an unprecedented rate.
The
far-left agenda set by House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi includes increasing
the size of government and imposing higher taxes that will ultimately result in
employee layoffs. Democrats plan to fight against the very policies that put
the U.S. economy back on track. Heading into the 2020 election,
African-Americans are beginning to see the answer to the president’s simple
question and Democrats should be very afraid.
Even
left-of-center organizations such as Real Clear Politics have been forced to
come to terms with the fact that the president’s approval rating among
African-Americans has swelled.
“A
recent, admittedly controversial Rasmussen Reports poll showed African-American
approval of Trump at 36 percent,” Real Clear Politics reported. “Even 20
percent African-American support for Trump would all but dismantle Democratic
Party presidential hopes for 2020. Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election with
88 percent of the black vote. That was about a six-point falloff from Barack
Obama’s share of the black vote in 2012.”
Naturally,
the frustration of a groundswell of support for the president due to his
winning economic ways for African-Americans must be deemed “controversial.” Of
course, Rasmussen polls are routinely cited as credible by this and other media
outlets when they favor Democrats. The 36 percent number is particularly
terrifying for a Democratic Party that has relied on name-calling and identity
politics to anger black voters to their banner. Here’s why.
“With
continually diminishing white support, Democrats must increasingly count on
massive minority turnout and bloc voting — especially among African-American
voters, who make up about 12 percent of the electorate,” Real Clear Politics
reports.
And
here’s the rub.
“Under
Trump, the economy is growing at nearly 4 percent per year,” Real Clear
Politics admits. “The robust growth coincides with Trump’s effort to curb
illegal immigration and imported labor. The net result has been to empower
minority job applicants in ways not seen in nearly half a century.”
Other
so-called minority groups such as Asians and Latinos generally vote Republican
at a rate of one-third. Their turnout ranks significantly lower than
African-Americans. However, Latino-Americans have made the most significant
economic gains under the Trump Administration.
It’s important to keep
in mind that while Pres. Trump is the standard bearer of the GOP, rank
and file congressional members have backed the policies that
boosted minority employment and incomes.
In terms of race and
identity politics that Democrats use to divide everyday Americans, the GOP-led
Congress passed significant legislation on prison reform that had unfairly
doled out excessive sentences to African-Americans. Unlike the Democrats who
have talked a big game for decades without delivering on either the economic struggles or social injustices
issues of African-Americans, the Trump-led GOP has come through huge in just
two years.
Even
now, the president and GOP have drawn a line in the sand on border security and
the wall knowing that illegal immigrants robbed low-income African-Americans of
jobs for decades. As the run-up to the 2020 election simmers, African-Americans
will have to ask themselves that simple question about Pres. Trump and the GOP
again.
“What
have you got to lose?”
This
time, the answer is everything — if you vote Democrat.
~
Conservative Zone
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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