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Why Black Votes Don’t Matter in 2020
They still need to go to the polls, but their ballots won’t push the next president over the top
Former Vice-President Joe Biden is very popular with African-American voters in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary. A recent Washington Post-Ipsos poll put Biden’s support at 48% with this key voting constituency.
So what?
The voting preferences of Black people aren’t the problem in Trump’s America. They know he’s a raging racist. They’ve known it since the time of the Central Park Five if they weren’t aware of it before then as one of his unfortunate tenants as far back as the 1970s. Trump’s infamous comments after a white supremacist killed an anti-racism protestor in Charlottesville in 2017 just exposed in an undeniable way what Black people knew all along.
African-Americans proved their belief in Trump’s unfitness for office when they voted overwhelmingly against him on Election Day in 2016. A CNN exit poll found that 89% of African-American voters cast ballots for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, compared to 8% for Trump, the standard-bearer for the…
