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So you want to be elected? Do you really? How’s about acting like it? If you must, fake it ’til you make it. Here are a few suggestions, for free:
Indeed.
Do Trumpers realize that President Bush got 44% of the Hispanic vote in 2004? Do they realize that Asian Americans used to be GOP leaning (W got 44%, Bush 41 got 55%) . Do they realize that 83% of blacks think Trump is a racist? Trunpers sure hand out lots of lectures for a crew with nothing but an electoral college squeeker win and a landslide midterm loss on their resume.
https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-african-american-voters-poll-racist-59f7adcf-776e-4ef1-bfd6-ff3b04ded233.html
In your face, Governor Wolf.
landslide midterm loss? Now that’s funny.
While I agree with the context of going after black votes, I still think you’re missing a big part of what will sway those voters come November; immigration.
The idea black voters are excited to have health insurance for illegals and all the other crap that goes with it is nuts. Trump knows this. He’s a political genius.
Unlimited immigration is destroying some of these communities. Yet Mittens, Rove et al LOVE cheap labor because they don’t have to deal with the consequences.
Do you have a point, other than to suggest that people like me are idiots? Using cherry-picked and misleading data, I might add, as if the decline in Republican success among Hispanics and Asians is the President’s fault.
First, here’s the data as far as I can tell — the Republican Presidential candidate’s share of the vote:
Hispanic: 25% in 1992, 21% in 1996, 35% in 2000, 44% in 2004, 31% in 2008, 27% in 2012, 28% in 2016. Trump did about as well as McCain and Romney, better than Bush 41 and Dole. W did unusually well.
Asian: 55% in 1992, 48% in 1996, 41% in 2000, 44% in 2004, 35% in 2008, 26% in 2012, 27% in 2016. This has been in a pretty straight-line decline. Trump did about as well as Romney.
On the “83% of blacks think Trump is a racist,” well, no, I didn’t know that exact figure from that particular poll. But I know that the media has been calling every Republican a racist going back to Reagan, if not earlier, and that every Republican has performed dismally among blacks for a long time. Here are the figures:
Black: 10% in 1992, 12% in 1996, 8% in 2000, 11% in 2004, 4% in 2008, 6% in 2012, 8% in 2016.
Clifford’s point is that the President did a major outreach to black voters. He’s been working on results for a long time, and now he’s rolling them out. There was the Super Bowl ad, and now this strong push at the State of the Union.
We’ll see whether it works.
I think you’re looking at the wrong metric when it comes to African American voters. Sure it’s important to get a higher percentage but the biggest factor is turnout. Hillary lost the election because African Americans didn’t go to the polls at the same volume as they did in 2008 and 2012. If blacks don’t view Trump as a threat I doubt they’ll vote with the same numbers as they did in 2008 and 2012.
And if a higher percentage are also voting for him, it can make a large swing in some odd places.
Pro-job and pro-family is not only the right thing to do, but a winning formula. It works with all demographics except elitist whites. Those people are insane right now and cannot be reasoned with.
Trump To Deliver SOTU in Scuba Gear To Avoid Drowning in Liberal Tears
No….his point was to trash the efforts at outreach to minorities from every other Republican before Trump…..and then brag about Trump’s non existent results in that regard. Or “offering advice”. Meanwhile, I can’t even think of a Republican who has made less outreach to non core voters than Trump.
I think Trump was smart last night in talking about a number of things that matter to black Americans. Many of those accomplishments are never reported by the MSM or cable channels outside of Fox. Criminal Justice reform, financial support for historical black colleges, opportunity zones and numerous economic accomplishments.
Yes. And. I am arguing for incremental changing of hearts and minds, leading to African Americans being viewed as a voting bloc that must actually be courted, competed for.
It’s kind of fun to see the NeverTrumpers whine. Mitt Romney is your hero.
Sad. Lies or wildly distorted view of reality. Sad.
I cited Justice Thomas. Is he a liar? Or do you just think he is too stupid to understand reality? Specify for me one counter example. You cannot because it does not exist.
You know that your assertions are factually false, or you willfully avert your eyes to preserve your bitter hate.
Yes. And I just did not add that piece. Nor did I roll in the sanctuary city/state as threat from illegal “brown” to legal “brown and black” people.
It can work, if the other GOP candidates follow the lead. There was a time, when Trump was the guy that rappers used to sing about.
There are people who think “not being a racist” is more important than better policies that provide results for people of all races, and especially those who had previously been held back or pushed down. There are other people who are smart enough to know the difference.
Before Trump was elected, I figured he would get more black votes without any accomplishments or special attention because as a celebrity and reality TV star he was already known by most, liked by many. I’m not sure his first term has persuaded many to cross the fence so much as it has overcome Democrat propaganda to restore their previous comfort with him.
Bold as Trump has been compared to past Presidents, the executive agencies of the nanny state remain intact. And I’m not thrilled by the power of any President to move a nation’s fortunes unilaterally. If he can right the ship alone, a Democrat can wreck it alone.
Congress has proved mostly worthless for legislation and restraint of the bureaucracies. But like Mark Steyn, my way is to expect doom while demanding more than has been proved. The odds don’t matter. The nanny state must be demolished. That can’t happen rule by rule. Destroy the underlying legislative authorities.
Well said! I will add the anecdotal observation of a black male combat veteran commenting “I don’t agree with his policies, but I respect him. He is gangster.” Strength inspires respect, shown in the dramatically higher support for Trump by black men relative to black women.
Meanwhile, Andy Biggs showed up for the Veterans’ Day Parade, but skipped the MLK march, again. And the Maricopa GOP snubs the MLK march in the East Valley every year. Pathetic.
Oh, and when there was a Republican representing the area including China/Korea/Vietnam town in Mesa, AZ, he ignored the lunar New Year public festivities. Now a Democrat represents that area, and no GOP challenger is showing up.
Pathetic.
This was Trump’s best speech imo.
there were a couple other highlights that I’m forgetting.
I’ve read that his approval among black voters is 20% which would have been unthinkable 4 years ago.
His approval rating among Latinos also increasing.
GOP has to do a better job of courting Asians.
John Yoo wrote an article about this a couple years ago.
Asians tend to be highly educated, high incomes and many are small business owners who get crushed by minimum wage laws and over-regulation.
These are voters who should vote GOP but for some baffling reason do not.
and shame on the GOP for thinking that Asians are a lost cause.
by the same token, shame on Asians for voting for a party that actively works against their interests.
As John Yoo wrote, for all their smarts, Asian voters are really stupid.
I’m the son of Korean immigrants by the way.
My parents were traumatized by Jimmy Carter and have never voted Democrat since (except in 1996 but Bill was not a centrist and the economy was booming).
They voted for Trump in 2016 because there was no way they were voting for Hillary who they have despised since 1992.
end of rant
end of ramble
I think others have tried to reach out to black voters, but the Democrats have done such a good job telling them we are racists, that it never works.
I think Trump is trying harder. If they don’t come out for the lowest unemployment in history and all the rest… I think it’s probably a lost cause. I think they would be better off playing the parties against each other starting a bidding war… but if they think we hate them… that over shadows everything.
Van Jones was afraid Trump was being successful last nigh, I hope Van Jones is right.
Almost 20 years ago, the movie “Barbershop” took a swipe at Jesse Jackson, and the idea that he somehow was the official spokesperson for black people (which resulted in Jackson and a lot of Jesse wanna-bes getting angry at that scene in the movie). But for the most part, GOP politicians have bought into that over the years, and have allowed Democratic Party activists like Jackson or Al Sharpton to serve as the guard dogs against trying to win more black support in elections.
Whenever a Republican pol tries to do outreach, those are the people who immediately go on the attack with massive tossings of race cards. Most GOP pols then simply back off, or others don’t even try to go there, because they don’t want to have the race cards thrown at them by people claiming to represent the entire black community.
Trump has the advantage of both being willing to challenge the Sharpton types as he challenges everyone else, plus (and importantly) having lived a lavish, high-profile lifestyle that, as noted above, some black rappers and others had celebrated until he ran for president, because it was the type of lifestyle they liked to sing about. That gives Trump a pop-culture opening into the black demographic more than your average GOPer. He’s defiantly not a suburban country-club Republican, and can use that to tout the economic gains among blacks over the past three years.
Fully in agreement with the bulk of your comment, I’d just like to add that this citation is especially misleading.
Their definition of “Asian” is spectacularly broad. It pretty much means you can come from India , China., Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Afghanistan, Pakistan …
So, without looking at immigration trends over the last 30 years, looking at this “trend” is meaningless to ascertain how a political party should react.
Also, Democrats have weaponized identity and tribal politics effectively co-opting various Asian ‘tribes’ into bloc voting for their own collective benefit, despite these groups being generally amenable to Republican values.
Not only did Trump bring in minority leaders to talk and strategize, he brought in leaders from every sector when he took office to just listen, discarded what didn’t work, and rolled up his sleeves. This story is a loud gong to the real definition of winning, and is making mantras like ‘hope and change’ ring hollow in the history books. Great post!
He also told the truth about Baltimore. The video of that local infobabe during a live, on-the-scene report, interrupted when the camerman followed a nearby rat, was priceless . . .
This is delusional. I know TDS is your problem but you need to pay attention.
Trump has two chances to get benefit from black voters. One is if they vote for him. Two is if they stay home and don’t vote for the Democrat. Both are helpful.
Quite. For his many faults, lack of outreach to non-core GOP voters is not one of them. I have been pleading for better outreach to Americans of African Ancestry now for decades (even on Ricochet in an exchange with Mona Charen a few years ago now) and Trump’s is the best effort I have seen, at least since Jack Kemp. Rove’s strategy was politically suicidal long-term. Good to see it buried.