Tag: Black Voters

According to a Reuters poll, approval for President Trump has doubled between April 22 and April 29, from 11 percent to 22 percent.

DOTHAN, Alabama – One of the key elements for Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Doug Jones’ path to victory on Tuesday will be a high voter turnout in the African-American Community. That level of turnout, many say, will have to approach

On Friday’s “MSNBC Live,” TV One host Roland Martin argued that Democrats should stop chasing white Trump voters and that black people don’t want to be the Democratic Party’s “side piece” or “political sharecroppers.” Martin began by saying Democrats have the problem

A Democrat New York assemblywoman has a solution for low turnout typically among poor and minority voting blocs: fine them if they fail to cast ballots.

Lynne Patton, vice president of the Eric Trump Foundation, writes that black voters are flocking to presidential candidate Donald Trump much more than previous Republicans because of the Democrats’ “broken promises.”

Leaders of the black church in America are urging African American voters to abandon the Democratic Party once and for all as Election Day approaches.

Rev. William Owens, who is endorsing the Republican candidate as a private citizen, says Trump deserves the chance to prove himself to Christian voters, including those in the black church. He asserts the Democrat Party has offered blacks nothing but failed policies.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – As early voting concludes in deep red Louisiana, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump appears to have turned out a record number of voters, leaving an apparent advantage over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

As the first reports emerge of falling black turnout in early voting, the New York Times Magazine has published an essay by a black reporter arguing that Donald Trump is right about at least one thing: Democrats have abandoned black voters.

The latest USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times tracking poll puts Republican nominee Donald Trump up nearly 7 points over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as of Sunday morning. He also hit an all-time high of 20.1% among black voters.

Although I have been a so-called ‘black’ American and a social conservative all my life – and found the two aspects of my identity to be remarkably congruent – I am always surprised when confronted with some of the vitriol that I and my fellow black conservatives face when addressing the black community. I have often wondered why it is ok for other groups to maintain a diversity of political viewpoints – whether they are Asians, Latinos, or Jewish Americans – but black Americans seem to believe that anyone who does not vote the party line is a traitor to his or her race.

Young black voters voiced their skepticism on Hillary Clinton when asked about the candidate by liberal advocacy organizations during a series of focus groups organized last month.

Blogger and podcaster Sonnie Johnson joined Breitbart’s Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM to discuss Hillary Clinton’s scheduled speech in Nevada – in which, as Boyle put it, “she’s going to call all of us racists,” by building the “alt-right” into a menace and tying it to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Podcaster and blogger Sonnie Johnson was having a pretty good time with this year’s BET Awards until Jesse Williams took the stage, as she told SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily.

Actor Tim Robbins introduced Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Monday, where he made an analogy that sought to belittle Hillary Clinton’s primary victories in Southern states.

Hillary Clinton is looking to black voters in South Carolina in a desperate attempt to avoid three early primary season losses against rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders slammed Hillary Clinton over her dropping poll numbers.

On MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” Saturday, host Melissa Harris-Perry explained, like the desegregation of lunch counters, that if a political party were to become one that represents “people of color,” it would then cause an “exodus of white voters.” “I guess

The Washington Post’s editorial board chose a bizarre headline for a front-page story Wednesday: “Lagging in Polls, Huckabee Takes a Leap of Faith” – as GOP candidate Mike Huckabee is in the top five of the newspaper’s most recent poll.